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)
Group(s) Excluded
- Asian
Comments
Truckee locals attempted to start a boycott
against Chinese goods and laborers in their town.
When many merchants continued to employ Chinese
Americans, some locals turned to more direct means,
such as cutting off Chinese men’s braids and hanging
the braids outside their houses. In June 1886, after
many Chinese Americans had already left Truckee, the
city fathers burned the Chinatown to the ground.
Women were invited to witness the event, and fire
wagons surrounded Chinatown to prevent the fire
spreading to the rest of Truckee.
“About 15 years ago my mother told me she had
heard a disturbing story about why there was no
Chinese community in Truckee: during a race riot or
some such occurrence around the turn of the century,
the ‘good white citizens’ of the town had reputedly
burned down the Chinese quarter, and the remaining
Chinese residents had packed up and left.”