The 'Yellow Peril': How 'eugenics' drove the long campaign of violent bigotry against Asians

Eliminationism in America, Part 9: The waves of Chinese and then Japanese immigration of the 19th and early 20th century were met with relentless efforts by whites to drive them out.

Part 9 of 12. [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.]

Though "sundown towns" enjoyed their heyday in the early 20th century, particularly in the American Midwest, one of the first such towns was way out West, in the little coal town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. And it wasn't African Americans who were being driven out, but Chinese immigrants.

The 1885 incident t…