Yick Wo v. Hopkins « Thread Started on Nov 4, 2003, 9:10pm »
Yick Wo was a chinese man who owned a laundry that was made out of wood. He convicted of a crime because he own a wooden laundry. Yick Wo v. Hopkins is related to the big question because no one was to own a laundry with a wooden building. The Board of Supervisors granted permission to operated laundries in wooden building all except one non-Chinese owener. Most of the chinese peoples applicants werent allowed to own a wooden building. He was arrested. Chinese were discriminated because they werent allowed to own a wooden laundry only the whites could.
Re: Yick Wo v. Hopkins « Reply #1 on Nov 4, 2003, 11:07pm »
Yick Wo was who owned a laundry store that was made out of wood and since the other stores were wooden it was fire hazardous. Yick Wo v. Hopkins is related to our big question of the year because this Chinese man was convicted of a crime: having a wooden laundry store. This was discriminated Chinese people because only one non-Chinese person got convicted and all of the white people didn't get in trouble.
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