Title:
Folder 1: Speech read before the Professional Club.
Subject:
Discrimination against Chinese.
Chinese -- California.
Tongs (Secret societies) -- California.
Note:
With the Francis Thompson miscellany is a speech by an unknown author read before the Professional Club [location unknown]
ca. 1880, regarding Chinese immigrants in California. This speech asserts that most are from Canton, and gives census and
other figures relating to Chinese in Calif.: land ownership, taxes, etc. The main focus of the speech is Chinese in California
organizing themselves into democratic social service "clubs" (i.e. Tongs) which provide room, board, mediation, care of the
sick, etc. Specific clubs listed: Yeung-Wo Co., Canton Co., Yan-Wo Co., Sze-Yap Co. and Ning Yeung Co. Pages from an unidentified
work listing rules of the Yeung-Wo Co. are attached. The author mentions that most Chinese are not slaves. The speech ends
with a summary of newspaper accounts of crimes by whites against Chinese, and compares abuses of the Chinese in California
to abuses of Africans in the south.
Hand written text has inserted between pages 6 and 7, pages of printed text concerning the Chinese in California (paginated
as 153-158).
Physical Description:
9 pages mss. text, 6 pages printed text.
Identifier:
BANC MSS 98/168 c: fol. 1
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Folder 1: Speech read before the Professional Club.