By: Samuel L. Leiter December 21, 2022: California's mid-19th-century gold rush sucked thousands of needy but adventurous foreign fortune seekers"Mexicans and Chileans, Australians, Frenchmen, and Chinese"into its gold mining maw, most of them welcomed at first. But the Americans soon turned xenophobic, denying the outsiders equal rights, with especially harsh reactions being visited upon the Chinese. They had to …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:26AM on December 22, 2022