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The Bellingham riots occurred on September 4, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, United States. [1] A mob of 400–500 white men, predominantly members of the Asiatic Exclusion League, with intentions to exclude Indian immigrants from the work force of the local lumber mills, attacked the homes of the South Asian Indians. [2]
A group of 400-500 white men with intentions to exclude East Indian immigrants from the local work force mobbed waterfront barracks. The white men beat and hospitalized 6 Indians while 410 Indians were jailed. By the next day, most East Indians had fled town, followed by many residents of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino descent.
Shefali Chandan writing in Jano conjectures that the emotions behind the circumstances that led to the ethnic cleansing of Bellingham in 1907, in which white mobs went door to door to locate East Indian immigrants and forced their expulsion, resulting in the entire community numbering about 200 or 300 leaving the town for good, found expression in the feature article written a year before. [5]
Bellingham was further south near Boulevard Park, founded in 1883 and purchased in 1890 by Fairhaven. Fairhaven was a large commercial district with its own harbor, founded in 1883, by Dan Harris, around his initial homestead on Padden Creek. Bellingham was the site of the Bellingham riots against East Indian immigrant
Lummi Indian Reservation: 6,590 21,000 West of Bellingham, in western Whatcom County: Makah Indian Reservation: 1,356 27,950 On Cape Flattery in Clallam County: Muckleshoot Indian Reservation: 3,300 3,850 Southeast of Auburn in King County: Nisqually Indian Reservation: 588 4,800 Western Pierce County and eastern Thurston County: Nooksack ...
Wunder, John R. “South Asians, Civil Rights, and the Pacific Northwest: The 1907 Bellingham Anti-Indian Riot and Subsequent Citizenship Deportation Struggles.” Western Legal History 4, (1991): 59–68; Wynne Robert, “American Labor Leaders and the Vancouver Anti-Oriental Riot.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly vol. 57 n. 4., Oct. 1966
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In the years just after 1900, hundreds of Sikhs had arrived to work in the lumber mills of Bellingham, Washington. In 1907, 400–500 white men, predominantly members of the Asiatic Exclusion League, attacked the Sikhs' homes in what is now known as the Bellingham riots. This quickly drove the East Indian immigrants out of the town. [25] [26] [27]