About 100 people rallied on the morning of Feb. 7—exactly 140 years to the day—at Hing Hay Park in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), where community groups, civic leaders, and residents marked the anniversary of the 1886 expulsion that forced more than 350 Chinese residents from their homes and businesses at gunpoint.
The event had many sponsors, including United Hub, the Wing Luke Museum, Historic South Downtown, the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, Pacific Artists’ Alliance, United Chinese Americans of Washington, OCA Asian Pacific Advocates of Greater Seattle, and the Chinese American Citizens Alliance.
It featured speeches by Seattle City Councilmember Eddie Lin, who represents District 2, and community leaders who drew direct parallels between the 19th-century mob violence and today’s immigration enforcement operations, before marchers retraced the path of removal from today’s CID to the original waterfront settlement.
Read the full article on Northwest Asian Weekly's website.
Another article to read is on the International Examiner's website.