Sand-Lot Incident

Examples of Sand-Lot Incident in the following topics:

• The Sand-Lot Incident

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • The San Francisco riot of 1877, also called the "Sand-Lot Incident," was a two day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California, by the city's majority white population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 24, 1877.
  • Nearly 8,000 people turned up for the socialist meeting at the so-called "sand-lots" in front of City Hall.