Useful Links
Forgotten Los Angeles History: The Chinese Massacre of 1871
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871
How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 ChineseThe greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history — bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more coldly vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel — occurred on a cool fall night in 1871. Seventeen Chinese men and boys, including a popular doctor, were hanged by an angry mob near what is now Union Station, an act so savage that it bumped the Great Chicago Fire off the front page of The New York Times.
https://www.laweekly.com/how-los-angeles-covered-up-the-massacre-of-17-chinese/
150 years ago, a mob attacked Los Angeles’s Chinese community (paywall)https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/24/150-years-ago-mob-attacked-los-angeless-chinese-community/
Video: The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-chinese-massacre-one-of-los-angeles-worst-atrocities
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871
How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 ChineseThe greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles' history — bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more coldly vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel — occurred on a cool fall night in 1871. Seventeen Chinese men and boys, including a popular doctor, were hanged by an angry mob near what is now Union Station, an act so savage that it bumped the Great Chicago Fire off the front page of The New York Times.
https://www.laweekly.com/how-los-angeles-covered-up-the-massacre-of-17-chinese/
150 years ago, a mob attacked Los Angeles’s Chinese community (paywall)https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/24/150-years-ago-mob-attacked-los-angeless-chinese-community/
Video: The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-chinese-massacre-one-of-los-angeles-worst-atrocities
Primary Sources
The Los Angeles Massacre:: Particulars of the wholesale lynching of Chinamen. - An eyewitness' account.,
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9a3c89d0-1fd8-0131-3027-58d385a7b928
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9a3c89d0-1fd8-0131-3027-58d385a7b928
Lessons
Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871
In this lesson students explore the complexities of race, violence, and vigilante justice in early American Los Angeles. In 1871, the population of Los Angeles was 6,000 people. This diverse population participated in the lynching of nearly 20 Chinese in Los Angeles. Why did the Chinese Massacre of 1871 happen? And what does that tell us about early American Los Angeles? That is the question students must answer through watching a segment of of Lost L.A., then reading and analyzing documents to develop their own answer. This lesson works best when students have background knowledge about 2 key historical trends: lynching and anti-Chinese sentiment in the West
https://www.kcet.org/lost-la-curriculum/anti-chinese-massacre-of-1871
In this lesson students explore the complexities of race, violence, and vigilante justice in early American Los Angeles. In 1871, the population of Los Angeles was 6,000 people. This diverse population participated in the lynching of nearly 20 Chinese in Los Angeles. Why did the Chinese Massacre of 1871 happen? And what does that tell us about early American Los Angeles? That is the question students must answer through watching a segment of of Lost L.A., then reading and analyzing documents to develop their own answer. This lesson works best when students have background knowledge about 2 key historical trends: lynching and anti-Chinese sentiment in the West
https://www.kcet.org/lost-la-curriculum/anti-chinese-massacre-of-1871