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Seattle’s Chinese Community Festivities Mark Traumatic 1886 Riot 


Seattle’s Chinese Community Festivities Mark Traumatic 1886 Riot 
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The Chinese community in Seattle, Washington, took time from Lunar New Year celebrations to mark the Seattle riot of 1886, when mobs started to forcibly expel most Chinese from the city. Organizers of a commemoration march say lessons from then are relevant today. VOA’s Natasha Mozgovaya reports.

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