Expulsions & sundown towns
The expulsion of Tacoma's Chinese community
3 November 1885Tacoma's Chinese quarter, Little Jerusalem, WA
Tacoma's mayor and leading citizens marched the city's Chinese residents out of town at gunpoint and burned their homes. The organisers called it the Tacoma method, and other cities copied it.
- People killed
- 2
- People displaced
- 200
The shape on the map is a reconstruction drawn from historical descriptions, not a surveyed boundary. Follow the sources for authoritative maps.