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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17727)	5/23/2003 11:01:31 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 21614

In 1870, Chinese immigrant laborers were transported to Massachusetts as scabs to break an Irish immigrant strike; in response, the Irish recognized the need for interethnic working class solidarity and tried to organize a Chinese lodge of the Knights of St. Crispin. After the Civil War, Mississippi planters recruited Chinese immigrants to discipline the newly freed blacks. During the debate over an immigration exclusion bill in 1882, a senator asked: if Indians could be located on reservations, why not the Chinese?18 search.yahoo.com kennesaw.edu That stuff on the last lingering, post-civil-rights laws comes in later chapters