Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Asian
Comments
Red Bluff’s first anti-Chinese organization was
formed in 1876. “It called itself the Working Men’s
Union, its stated purpose protecting white laborers
from the Chinese. The Red Bluff town trustees passed
two ordinances directed at the Chinese. One was a
license fee on laundries, the other a fee on anyone
transporting goods (vegetables) across town.”
In February 1886, “the working men of Red Bluff
formed their own organization, the Anti Coolie
League. The League wanted more direct action
against the Chinese, and in 1886 the League’s
president led at least 2,000 people in a march on
Chinatown. The procession went from house to house
and ordered the occupants to leave within ten days.
Some agreed and some did not, but there was no
violence.”
In 1886 Red Bluff drove out its Chinese
population, and later that year burned the Chinatown.