Heritage Parkscape: Chinatown Massacre the Great Wall of Los Angeles
Posted: September 30th, 2008
On October 24, 1871, a mob of 500 lynched 19 Chinese on Calle de Los Negros in El Pueblo. The massacre brought the first national and international attention to Los Angeles. The site of the massacre is now a streetlight. Read Dr. Munson Kwok’s Statement of Remembrance on behalf of the Chinese American Museum. The Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca © and SPARC.
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