L.A.'s memorial for 1871 Chinese Massacre will mark a shift in how we honor history

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'The plaque marking the Chinese Massacre of 1871 is not easy to find,' writes columnist cmonstah. 'Soon, this important history will no longer get lost underfoot.'

Turning on its head one of the many myths of the American West, Los Angeles moves to correct its historical record with Native inhabitants.

To try to understand California history through its monuments is to come away with a highly skewed vision of historical events. Through statues, we learn the story of Serra, the great evangelizer, who brought Christianity to California. The story of the region’s Indigenous inhabitants, however, is muted.

The Chinese Massacre of 1871 didn’t come out of nowhere. At the time, Chinese people were forbidden from owning property, marrying white people and were denied equal legal protection. This culminated in 1882 with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a federal law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States. During that era, Los Angeles was not the only site of violence.

 

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