Talk:Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot

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Peer Edit from Kayla Vickers
Title: Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot

The Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot was an Anti-Filipino riot (Find a synonym for the word riot because it sounds repetitive) that took place from November 8-11, 1927 in the Yakima Valley of Washington. (Who was in the riot: KKK? local citizens? African-Americans? Just Filipinos? Or was everybody involved?) In the late 1920's an (A)nti-Asian sentiment in the (United States) grew, culminating (during) the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1924. (Why did it grow so much? Did people not like Asians because they were foreign, taking their jobs, or because of the stigma of what Asians were seen as) Unlike other Asian groups at the time, Filipinos were permitted in the country as a result of the US Colonization of the Philippines, and although they were legal residents, they still faced a great deal of discrimination. Many of these workers found jobs in Eastern Washington on the numerous farms in the area. (Were they paid well? Were the farmers rude? What were the working conditions?)

Title: (During the Riot) At the same time, the Ku Klux Klan had been exploiting this existing anti-Asian sentiment with the residents of the valley, claiming to protect white women from the threat of interracial dating, and local men from the source of cheap labor. In November of 1927, (the KKK's attempts to intimidate and threat in the valley accelerated). (give a sentence about some of the stuff that happened before you describe actual events that took place). Beginning the night of November 8th, a mob gathered at a local boarding house owned by an interracial couple, demanding all Filipino boarders (to) leave town. Throughout the week Filipino workers were threatened with death if they did not leave the valley. Most were forced onto trains out of town, or simply left on foot. Those who remained were put into the county jail for their own protection. (Was anyone killed?) Overall hundreds of Filipinos were forced out of the valley (where did they go? and were they welcome at their new location?) as a result of the riot, which finally ended November 11th.

Title: (Aftermath)

In the aftermath of the incident, the local leaders (the leaders of the KKK?)n were arrested and put on trial, eventually being found guilty by an all-white jury and sentenced to 10 days in jail. (Add information about how life was after the riot for Filipinos: Were they able to live in peace? Did they still get tortured and drove out of town? Did any organizations rise from this riot?)Kav026 (talk) 00:25, 28 March 2019 (UTC)Kayla Vickers

I found this to be a really interesting article, but you could expand more on certain topics. For example, the riot itself was it just threats or was there actual violence, and what happened after the riot. You could add information about who and why they were involved. After the leaders were sentenced to 10 days in jail what happened, did they change and treat Filipinos better or continue threatening them? Once you expand on the topics, it will become an article people will want to research about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kav026 (talk • contribs) 00:20, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Merge With Yakima Valley riots Page
I suggest merging this page with the Yakima Valley Riot page, as they cover the same event. Additionally this page is marked as a stub which is misleading because there is already a thorough article on the event. It may also be confusing to readers who think that they are two different events when they are not. Soyyyboiii (talk) 00:30, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The merger is definitely appropriate, but it also seems like an opportunity to correct a historical bit of propaganda that named it "riot", suggesting something sudden and uncontrollable, perhaps on both sides. A lot of violent attacks on minority populations have been called things like "race riots" when they were part of much larger campaigns of assault and intimidation mixing state violence with vigilante violence. If, even contemporarily, the headline was "https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/ninety-years-ago-in-washington-a-wave-of-anti-immigrant-sentiment-resulted-in-horror-for-filipinos.html Mobs Drive Filipinos From Yakima Valley]", that's not a riot. Something like "1927 Filipino Expulsion of Yakima Valley" would be more accurate and not a continuation of a propaganda term. ADavidJohnson (talk) 00:31, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ given that that was unopposed; a move also seems reasonable. Klbrain (talk) 19:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)