Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California’s 1913 Alien Land Law barred Japanese immigrants from owning or leasing land, fueling racism, dispossession, and ...
The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...
On May 3, 1913, California enacted the Alien Land Law, designed to deny Japanese families their foothold in America by denying them the right to own land. The law was tightened in 1920 and 1927 to bar ...