Event Title
The Rock Springs Massacre of 1885: Anti-Chinese Race Riots in the West
Location
Diamond 223
Start Date
1-5-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 3:30 PM
Project Type
Presentation- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
The Rock Springs Riot is an often forgotten incident in Americas past, as is the anti-Chinese racism prevalent in Gilded Age America. My presentation explores the riot, in which white miners horrifically murdered at least 28 Chinese miners in one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. My presentation will also put the riot in the context of racial violence labor battles following the Civil War, with a particular emphasis on a wave of anti-Chinese violence in the West following the boom in Chinese immigration in the 1860s and 1870s. I will look at how politicians and capitalists played their part in the incident and what happened in U.S.-Chinese relations in the wake of Rock Springs.
Faculty Sponsor
Elizabeth Leonard
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. History Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
809
The Rock Springs Massacre of 1885: Anti-Chinese Race Riots in the West
Diamond 223
The Rock Springs Riot is an often forgotten incident in Americas past, as is the anti-Chinese racism prevalent in Gilded Age America. My presentation explores the riot, in which white miners horrifically murdered at least 28 Chinese miners in one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. My presentation will also put the riot in the context of racial violence labor battles following the Civil War, with a particular emphasis on a wave of anti-Chinese violence in the West following the boom in Chinese immigration in the 1860s and 1870s. I will look at how politicians and capitalists played their part in the incident and what happened in U.S.-Chinese relations in the wake of Rock Springs.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/224