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Category: Eurasians

Man Denies Daughter in Divorce Suit

November 20, 2009 |  4:00 am



Nov. 20, 1919, Comics
“Wonder What a Decoy Thinks About” by Clare Briggs


Nov. 20, 1919, Divorce
Nov. 20, 1919: A judge refuses to declare that a young girl is Eurasian simply because a man charges in a divorce suit that the father was a Japanese cook employed by his wife’s family.


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Clerk Refuses to Marry Chinese Man to White Girl

July 11, 2009 |  4:00 am


July 11, 1899, Marry
 

July 11, 1899: A Chinese man accused of raping a white 16-year-old girl wants to marry her. The girl and her mother consented, but intermarriage of whites and Asians was illegal at the time.

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