Bellingham riots

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The Bellingham Riots occurred on September 5, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, USA. A group of 400-500 white men with intentions to exclude East Indian immigrants from the local work force mobbed waterfront barracks. The men threw East Indian workers into the streets, beat them, and pocketed their valuables. The authorities watched passively as the mob corralled the beaten Indian immigrants into the City Hall. No participants in the mob violence were prosecuted.

Some victims of the riots migrated to Everett, Washington where two months later, they received similar treatment. Similar riots occurred during this period in Vancouver and parts of California.

[edit] External links

• Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965

• A Historical Perspective of Americans of Asian Indian Origin, 1790-1997

• The Racial Politics of Empire: South Asian Revolutionaries on the Pacific Coast