The Bay Area town that drove out its Chinese residents for 100 years

In the 1800s, Antioch's Chinatown consisted of homes and stores on both sides of First and Second streets, from G to I streets, as highlighted in red on the map. Antioch Historical Society & Museum Before the white residents of Antioch burned down Chinatown in 1876, they banned Chinese people from walking the city streets after sunset. In order to get from their jobs to their homes each evening, t

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“Nearly 100 years later, the 1960 census recorded a little over 17,000 people living in the town; 99.6% were white. Just 12 residents were Chinese.”