but I had to look up Danville. The Danville, Va Riot of 1883, awful yet no surprise, sorry to say. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/danville-riot/
There were also attacks and murders against Asian workers on the west coast, Portland, Seattle, etc., late 19th, early 20th cent.
https://time.com/5834427/violence-against-asian-americans-history/
(TIME).. This type of language boiled over into deathly violence time and time again. In 1871, at least seventeen Chinese immigrants were hanged in makeshift gallows by a large white mob in Chinatown in Los Angeles. In 1885, an armed mob forcibly drove a Chinese population out of its Tacoma, Wash. homes, menacing its community with rifles, breaking into houses and smashing doors and windows. The same year, white workers in Wyoming massacred 28 Chinese coal miners.
In each instance, these vicious attacks did not result in increased protections for Asian Americans, but further institutional debasement. In Tacoma, the city’s mayor, Jacob Weisbach, participated himself; in Los Angeles, the manslaughter convictions of eight men were ultimately overturned on a legal technicality. In 1882, the widespread anti-Chinese sentiment was burnished into law with the Chinese Exclusion Act, marking the first time the U.S. had ever barred a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the country...
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- Zinn Report: The Danville Riot occurred on Nov. 3, 1883.
White supremacists resented the biracial Readjuster Party which controlled the city council seats in the majority African American city of Danville, Virginia in 1882. An attack by white supremacists left four Black and one white man dead.
In the aftermath, armed white men patrolled the streets of the town, preventing most African Americans from voting and allowing the Democratic Party to regain political power in the town. Read more in the Encyclopedia Virginia.
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