Mamie Tape Was Barred From School Because She Was Chinese — So Her Parents Sued
Her case came decades before Brown v. Board of Education
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8 min readJun 6, 2021
Discrimination against Asians in the United States is not a recent occurrence. More than a century ago, in the mid- to late 1800s, Chinese exclusion was even institutionalized in U.S. society, particularly in the state of California.
