Anti-Chinese violence in Oregon
In Oregon, mobs drove Chinese workers out of small towns and workplaces territory-wide in the Winter of 1885 and Summer of 1886.  Many of the Chinese expelled across Oregon made their way to Portland, where they settled in the city's Chinatown.  In Portland the Chinese were tolerated in part because of its close commercial shipping ties to China.

In 1886 an anti-Chinese convention was held for the entire Pacific coast in Portland. Governor Sylvester Pennoyer penned a letter on March 15 of that year, advocating that "legal" means such as officially sanctioned boycotts should be used to remove Chinese people from the state.

See also
 Chinese American history
 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
 Chinese Massacre Cove in Wallowa County
 Scott Act, 1888 and Geary Act, 1892
 Anti-Chinese violence in California
 Anti-Chinese violence in Washington
 Chinese massacre of 1871
 San Francisco riot of 1877
 Rock Springs massacre, 1885
 Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885
 Tacoma riot of 1885
 Seattle riot of 1886
 Hells Canyon massacre, 1887
 Torreón massacre, 1911 in Mexico
 Lone Fir Cemetery
 Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic#Oregon

References

External links
 Floor speech by US Senator John H. Mitchell on anti-Chinese violence, in 1886.

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Chinese-American culture in Oregon
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