By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge Chinese Exclusion Act case files being digitized by a scanner donated by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives at Riverside staff.) RIVERSIDE, November 15, 2022 More than 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act case files held by the National Archives at Riverside are now
An early Chinese immigrant's experience navigating restrictive immigration laws and practices in the 1800s uncover details about the formation of Los Angeles' Chinese community and reveal strategies developed to work in and around laws or sometimes counter them directly in court.