Editing Eureka, California (section)

===Chinese expulsion===
{{Main|1885 Chinese expulsion from Eureka}}
Racist views of Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century led to violent attacks on them by White settlers across the West, both before and after the [[Chinese Exclusion Act]]. Economic downturns resulting in competition for jobs fed sinophobia and violent actions against Chinese immigrants, especially on the Pacific coast. In February 1885, Eureka City Councilman David Kendall was caught in the crossfire of two rival Chinese gangs and killed. A group of 600 White vigilantes forcibly and permanently evicted all 480 Chinese residents of Eureka's Chinatown.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Branson-Potts |first=Hailey |date=2022-11-12 |title=This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the story is finally being told |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-12/la-me-eureka-chinatown-history |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="uvm.edu">Lowen, James W., [http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/sundowntownsshow.php?id=1044 Sundown Towns, Eureka, CA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620041315/https://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/sundowntownsshow.php?id=1044 |date=June 20, 2021 }}, Illinois.edu, 1997–2010</ref>

Among those who guarded the city jail during the height of the [[Sinophobia|sinophobic]] tension was [[James Gillett]], who went on to become [[Governor of California]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/Gillett.html| title=Californians and the Military: James Norris Gillett| publisher=California State Military Museum |access-date=August 7, 2007}}</ref> The anti-Chinese ordinance was repealed in 1959.<ref name="uvm.edu"/><ref>{{cite web |author=Easthouse, K. |date=February 27, 2003 |title=The Chinese Expulsion |url=http://www.northcoastjournal.com/022703/cover0227.html |access-date=November 26, 2006 |website=North Coast Journal}}</ref>