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“Fritz (to Pat). “If the Yankee Congress can keep the yellow man out, what is to hinder them from calling us green and keeping us out too?””

In the 1902 pamphlet, American Federation of Labor president Samuel Gompers, writer Herman Guttstadt, and Maine Senator James Blaine argue that Chinese labor posed a threat to the white American working class and, in doing so, invoke racist…

This cartoon is a commentary that was published on the eve of the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law on May 6, 1882, by President Chester A. Arthur.

The illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper depicts a Chinese man sitting outside the Golden Gate of Liberty, barred out due to his ethnicity.