The Chinese Presbyterian Mission Church became the first U.S. church with an Asian congregation when it opened its doors in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1853. Six years later, it founded the first school in the nation to admit Chinese students. But that landmark event did not inaugurate an enlightened educational policy toward the Chinese in San Francisco. Instead, it was a feeble exception to a long, ugly government policy of racist segregation that prevented Chinese students and other minorities from attending school with white children — and, for 14 years, prevented Chinese students from attending school at all. The first Chinese arrived in San Francisco around 1848. For the next several years, they were few in number and were treated reasonably well: In 1850, Mayor John Geary invited the "China boys" to march in a funeral procession for President Zachary Taylor. A judge speaking at a ceremony in Portsmouth Square said, "You stand among us in all respects as equals." But that brief period of goodwill soon faded. As the Chinese population swelled in the 1850s, white San Franciscans increasingly turned against the immigrants. Like most white Americans at that time, they regarded all people of color, whether "Mongolians" (a… Read full this story
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