“No variety of anti-European sentiment has ever approached the violent extremes to which anti-Chinese agitation went in the 1870’s and 1880’s. Despite laws and treaties promising federal protection, “lynchings, boycotts and mass expulsions still…
The Wasp’s first anti-Chinese cartoon, The Equal of Persons Gibson and Loomis, was a response to Reverends Gibson and Loomis' positive testimony to the “good character” of the Chinese immigrant in April 1876 before the Committee of the Senate of the…