Pamplin Media Group - Unburying History: Portland's shameful anti-Chinese violence
December 10 2020 My view: In an era when the country was yanking out the welcome mat of those who risked their lives to build a transcontinental railroad here, the Chinese population ofPortland actually grew. The news garnered only two paragraphs in the Morning Oregonian of March 5, 1886, but the headline was stark: "Another Chinese Outrage: Fifty Masked Men Drive 125 Chinamen into Portland from Mt. Tabor." With the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad and the United States suffering a five-year depression after the Panic of 1873, many workers and politicians began blaming th...