FEATURE: Why the Los Angeles Chinese Massacre’s 145th anniversary is so significant today
24 October 2016: 145 years ago today, 500 white men entered Los Angeles Chinatown to lynch Chinese residents in a racially motivated riot. In 1871, Los Angeles was a very different city. The glitz and glamor of Hollywood were yet to be cultivated and the town’s small population of just over 5,000 was notoriously plagued with incidents of violence. Whilst the…