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The Chinese also settled in Denver, where many opened laundries to meet the needs of the predominantly male city. [9] By 1870, “Chinaman's Row” was established on Wazee Street in Denver, where forty-two Chinese immigrants lived and worked. By 1890, “Chinaman's Row” had evolved into Chinatown, Denver, with a peak population of 980 people.
In Denver, most of the Chinese operated laundries, picking up a need for Denver's residents. Anti-Chinese sentiment escalated to mob rule in Chinese enclaves throughout the Western United States. On October 31, 1880, a white mob attacked Chinese people, their homes and their businesses, virtually destroying all of Chinatown.
Chin Lin Sou, ca. 1880s. History Colorado, Stephen H. Hart Library and Research Center. Chin Lin Sou (September 29, 1836 – August 10, 1894, 陳林新) was an influential leader in the Chinese American community and prominent figure in Colorado. [1]
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community this week removed an anti-Chinese plaque from a street in what used to be
Linda Lung, whose family owned businesses that were destroyed during an anti-Chinese riot in Denver in 1880, said a recent apology from the mayor for the riot
Chinese people first arrived in Denver in 1870, and settled in a neighborhood known as "Hop Alley" along Wazee Street ("Wazee" is said to be a Chinese name). [13] Denver was the scene of a deadly anti-Chinese riot in 1880. [14] Denver has an active population of Japanese Americans. Sakura Square in downtown Denver was founded in 1944 by ...
In The Yellow Peril: Chinese Americans in American fiction, 1850–1940 (1982), Wu said that fear of Asians dates from the European Middle Ages, from the 13th-century Mongol invasion of Europe. Most Europeans had never seen an Asian man or woman, and the great differences in language, custom, and physique accounted for European paranoia about ...
Great Chinese Wall Doomed! Peking Seeks World Trade! Although the Denver papers dropped the story after a few days, the story did not die. Two weeks after the Denver headlines, John Lewis noticed that a large Eastern U.S. newspaper had picked up the story and included information not even in the original story.