Greaser Act

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The Greaser Act was an anti-Mexican law enacted in 1855 in California, thinly disguised as an anti-vagrancy statute. The law defined a vagrant as "all persons who are commonly known as ' Greasers' or the issue of Spanish and Indian blood... and who go armed and are not peaceable and quiet persons." The law was repealed a few years later.

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California Statutes 175 (1855)

A Different Mirror (p.178), by Ronald Takaki, Little Brown & Co. (1993)

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