AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Page Act Of 1875, Xenophobia, Only Time
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Chinese cant own land, cant own place that their business is in. Naturalization is limited to free white persons of good character . Chinese don"t care because they want to go back to china anyway. 2 parts to a court case the decision (what the court decided), and the opinion (judges get to write their opinion about the matter sometimes the opinion is more important than the actual decision is. I. e. , opinion of segregation doesn"t need to be done now florida schools not desegregated until 1970) California tries to limit the rights of chinese in general, trying to make them uncomfortable and not want to stay/immigrate. Lawyer goes to court and says the chinese cant testify against white person because they are not citizens. A race that nature has marked as inferior . Chinese get angry at this decision because they have no rights, and because whites say they are not humans.
