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Expulsion of Tacoma’s Chinese Residents in 1885

October 31, 2022 - 10:16 am

On Saturday, Hundreds of people walked from Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza to the Chinese Reconciliation Park for the annual Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism. The event was to observe the day about 200 Chinese residents in the Tacoma area were forcibly removed in 1885.  KBCS’s Yuko Kodama has this story.

Lotus Perry, Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation Board Member and Volunteer

Rinrada Hui and father, Cho Ryong Hui

Rinrada Hui

Mak Fai Kung Fu Lion Dancers

Food prepared for walkers at the end of the walk

Chinese Reconciliation Park