Friends at Venice Beach on Fourth of July, 1931. (Photo courtesy of LAPL.) In the 1930&rsqu
Friends at Venice Beach on Fourth of July, 1931. (Photo courtesy of LAPL.) In the 1930’s, approximately 650 Koreans in Los Angeles County formed a community in the area between Adams and Slausen Boulevards and between Western and Vermont Avenues, now called South Central Los Angeles. Despite their small numbers, Koreans were targets of anti-Asian violence as well as anti-Asian legislation. Korean farm workers were attacked in Hemet Valley, California, in 1913, by an angry mob of white workers who mistook them for Japanese. The same year, California passed the Alien Land Act, which prohibited immigrants ineligible for citizenship - that is, Asians - from buying property. -- source link
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