Ep. 285 | The L.A. Chinatown Massacre

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On October 24th, 1871 the Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre took place near the present-day location of Union Station, just north of the core downtown L.A. area. Though mostly unknown rather than forgotten, this incident that happened one hundred fifty years ago this month will be remembered through a number of commemorative events. The Chinese American Museum (today located adjacent to where the atrocities occurred) will sponsor one event. My friend, Scripps College professor Hao Huang will be participating in another event that will memorialize this tragic event in local L.A. history. Well-known and respected L.A. Chinatown scholar and activist Eugene Moy will also be among the speakers at this event. The links to both are shown below. In this CHP episode, I tell the story of the massacre and how it all went down on that tragic day. If you have time, I encourage everyone to check out these events that will offer an excellent perspective on what happened and the lessons we can all learn from it. For more content and ways to support Teacup Media, visit our website at teacup.media

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0:00.0	Readings won and all, Los Lomont-Gummery here.
0:02.2	Thanks for tuning in to the China History Podcast.
0:05.9	Well, we finished off that five-part series
0:08.4	on the Typing Rebellion, and from there,
0:10.6	we move on to an event that happened to mere seven years
0:14.5	after the Typings were vanquished in the city of Nanjing.
0:19.2	And approximately 6,500 miles to the east of Nanjing
0:22.8	is the city of Los Angeles, a place where I currently reside.
0:28.0	Today, I wanted to tell you about a horrible hate crime,
0:31.2	as all hate crimes tend to be,
0:33.6	that happened in this very place,
0:35.6	exactly 150 years ago on October 24th.
0:40.0	This was in 1871, post-civil war.
0:43.9	Ulysses Grant was two years into his first term.
0:48.0	More than half of my listeners live in nations
0:50.2	other than the U.S. of A, and I'm guessing today's topic
0:53.5	was never taught in your high school.
0:55.6	And I'm betting, even here where I live,
0:58.1	the story is mostly unknown.
1:01.3	So with the century and a half mark approaching,
1:03.8	I thought we'd look at the LA Chinatown Massacre.
1:07.3	Because San Francisco is so much closer
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