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Japanese Americans arrive in Hawaii to work as laborers on sugar plantations
1891 Japanese immigrants began to settle in California
Early 1900’s Japanese Americans begin to lease land and sharecrop
1906 San Francisco School Board passes a regulation to segregate children of Asian descent
(Chinese, Japanese, Korean) from Caucasian-American school children
1913 California passes the Alien Land Law, forbidding “all aliens ineligible for citizenship” from
owning land, banning Japanese Americans from owning land
1924 Immigration Act of 1924 passed by Congress which ends all Japanese Immigration to the
USA
1941 Munson Report, an investigation into the loyalty of Japanese Americans, is released,
indicating that Japanese Americans are not a threat