History of Anti-Asian Hate in the USA
Before World War II
During World War II
Present day
Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 where all those who posed a national threat were sent to Internment camps
After Pearl Harbor, the FBI began taking way Japanese community leaders to the Internment camps
120000 Japanese-Americans were moved to the Internment camps.
Japanese Americans were victims of multiple acts of terrorism that included gunshots fired into their homes and businesses, arson fires, threats, and vandalism.
After World War II
In 1982, a Chinese American was beaten to death because his attackers believed he was Japanese and blamed him for the economic decline in the auto industry
Four days after 9/11, a Sikh gas station owner was murdered because his attacker blamed him for the terrorist attack
Eight weeks after 9/11, more than a thousand incidents of racial violence were reported, including nineteen murders, attacks on places of worship, and personal intimidation and harassment.
In August of 2012, a shooting rampage occurred at Oak Creek, Wisconsin that left 6 Sikh Americans dead.
After 9/11, South Asian Americans faced systemic racism in the form of profiling and surveillance by various government agencies and officials
Several people blame Asians for the global pandemic caused by Covid-19.
People have called Covid-19 the "Chinese virus" and "Wuhan virus"
An Asian woman was attacked for wearing a face mask on a NYC subway on 2/2/2020
An Asian woman was sprayed with Lysol whilst she waited on line at a pharmacy and was told that she was the infection, and was told to go home
Donald Trump had tweeted messages with the words "Chinese virus" essentially enabling others to blame China for the Covid-19 virus
In 1885, a mob of 1500 people forced all Chinese people out of Seattle
In 1871 the largest mass lynching in the country occurred when 17 Chinese immigrant men were lynched by a mob of 500 in L.A.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): Chinese laborers were not allowed to become citizens and those with Chinese ancestry faced difficulty leaving and (re)entering the country
California's 1913 Alien Land Law prohibited all aliens who weren't eligible for citizenship (i.e. Asian immigrants) could not own land or sign up for a lease that was longer than three years
Several Asians had to move from the that they owned
Immigration Act of 1924: persons with Japanese ancestry weren't allowed in the country
Americans feared that the Japanese were going to come and overrun the country with their high birth rates and aggressiveness