San Jose apologises for past racial discrimination against Chinese community

Key Facts

• In early California, many Chinese immigrants were employed to do some of the toughest work, including building railroads When Young Soong Quong first arrived San Jose, California in the late 19th century, the Chinese teenager stocked shelves at his uncle's shop in the city's vibrant Chinatown, where thousands of Chinese immigrants worked back-breaking, low-wage jobs to send money back home.
• More than a hundred years later, San Jose has officially apologised to Chinese immigrants and their descendants for the role the city played in "systemic and institutional racism, xenophobia, and discrimination".
• One of the worst examples was in the Los Angeles Chinatown in 1871, when 19 Chinese people - 10% of the small Chinese population of the city at the time - were killed by a mob.
• San Jose is the latest and largest US city to officially apologise to Chinese immigrants and their descendants.

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