Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1971), 116-32, 139, 153-54.
Special Committee on Chinese Immigration's Report, 25-27, 29.
For examples of selectivity, see Testimony of F. F. Low, April 11, 1876, 69-79, and Testimony of Otis Gibson, April 12, 1876, 90-100, and compare to the "Address" and "Memorial" above.
Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 213.
Special Committee on Chinese Immigration's Report, 32, 46-56.
signed editorial by Henry George, "The Standard," New York, June 80, 1888, quoted in Henry George, The Life of Henry George, 2 vols. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1911), http://www.henrygeorge.org/LIFEofHG/LHG2/lhg202.htm.
Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 213.
Statement of the Committee of D.A. 162, Knights of Labor of California, in Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 217.
Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 34.
For four books that show how critical issues of gender and race became to politics and social reform in the West, see:
Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
Ian Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,1999).