Chinese (and White) Resistance
to Unfair Immigration Laws


The People v. Hall
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Chae Chan Ping v. US
The US v. Wong Kim Ark
The Chinese American Cases: Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Pun Chi
The Chinese Six Company




"We Are Not the Degraded Race You Would Make Us" -Norman Asing Challenges Chinese Immigration Restrictions
"We Chinese Are Viewed Like Theives and Enemies" _Pun Chi Appeals to Congress to Protect the Rights of Chinese
Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President of the United States
"Rock Springs is Killed" -White Reaction to the Rock Springs Riot White Protest to the ill-Treatment of the Chinese (1885)
The American people know that the Chinese people built the railroad.
And often that's the one and only thing they know. And that's exactly
the problem.

-Professor Patricia Limerick


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