Special Section - 1907 Bellingham Riots

1907 Bellingham Riots
Links and Resources

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On-Line Resources

• Asian American Curriculum and Research Project
  The Asian American Curriculum and Research Project, based at Western Washington University, provides instructional and resource materials for teachers and students, grades 4-12, on the experiences of immigrants from Asia and Asian Americans in the Pacific Northwest with a central focus on the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) during World War II. Through the collaboration of teachers, community members, scholars, museum educators, and archivists, and community organizations, the project will create materials for dissemination to schools throughout the state and the Pacific Northwest region.
• Bellingham Herald
  In 2007, to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1907 riots, the Bellingham Herald published a serious of articles about the riot, as well as issued an apology for the paper's racist coverage of the event 100 years prior.
  • 1907 Riots, 100 Years Later: Audio/Visual Slidehow
  • 100 years after riot coverage: our apology
  • 1907 Bellingham mob forced East Indian workers from town
  • 1907 Bellingham riot sparked other actions against immigrants
  • City, country will mark 'day of healing' Tuesday
  • Immigrants often face animosity, historians say
  New Sikh arrivals feel welcomed
• Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
  The story of early Indian immigrants to California told through photographs, documents, and publications, drawn from the South/Southeast Asia Library's rich archive of material on South Asians in North America. Based on the exhibit held in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley, July 16 to September 30, 2001.
• A Historical Perspective of Americans of Asian Indian Origin: 1790-1997
  A brief history of South Asians in America by independent scholar Srirajasekhar Bobby Koritala.
• HistoryLink.org: White workingmen attack Bellingham's East Indian millworkers on September 4, 1907
  A brief illustrated essay by Emily Lieb for HistoryLink.Org, the on-line encyclopedia of Washington State history.
• New, Thinking, Agile, and Patriotic: "Hindu" students at the University of Washington, 1908-1915
  A special exhibit of the University of Washington libraries. In the early twentieth century, several hundred students from India found their way to the U.S. and enrolled in American universities, primarily on the Pacific coast. Between 1908 and 1915, approximately 25 Indian men came to Seattle to study at the University of Washington, one of a dozen or so American institutions favored by student immigrants from Bengal and other Indian regions.
• Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest
  A special exhibit of Seattle's Wing Luke Asian Museum. "Our region’s own Sikh community traces its start back over a century ago, back when the city was just growing from its logging town roots and McKinley was president.Since that time, Sikhs have made and continue to make positive contributions to the Pacific Northwest, in ways as varied as their presence in our area – from professionals leading technology companies to youth influencing hip-hop culture with bhangra music."

• Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
  The Center for Pacific Northwest Studies seeks to enhance public and scholarly understanding of the region’s past and present through expansion of its archival holdings, public programming, and publications. The Center’s collections include private papers, organizational and institutional records documenting economic, social, cultural and political trends significant to the Pacific Northwest.
• Community to Community Development
  Community to Community Development is a women-led place based, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities. They are committed to systemic change and to creating strategic alliances that strengthen local and global movements toward social, economic, and environmental justice.
• Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
  The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies supports a network of scholars in cutting-edge research, education, and outreach about work, workers and their organizations. The Center engages students in labor studies through courses and field work. We promote connections between students, faculty, and labor communities locally and around the world, and inform policy makers about issues confronting workers.
• No One Is Illegal – Vancouver
  No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial immigrant and refugee rights collective with leadership from members of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. The No One is Illegal campaign has two goals: to attain concrete victories for immigrants and refugees and to develop the communities' own capacity to attain justice and dignity for themselves and their families.
• Whatcom Human Rights Task Force
  The mission of the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force is to promote and protect the rights of the human family. The WHRTF works to ensure an individual's right to be treated with dignity and to live without fear of violence, intimidation, or discrimination based on group identification or personal characteristics.
• Whatcom Museum of History & Art
  The Whatcom Museum provides leadership in the fields of history and art in the Pacific Northwest. Through preservation, collections, exhibitions, and educational programs, the Museum enhances the quality of life for our community.

Books

Banerjee, Kalyan Kumar. Indian Freedom Movement: Revolutionaries in America. Calcutta: Jijnasa, 1969.

Bhatia, Sunil. American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora. New York: NYU Press, 2007.

Jensen, Joan M. Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.