Heading: (1920 Sacramento Bee publisher’s anti-Japanese rant)
Author: McClatchy, V.S.
Title: “What About Japanese Immigration? / Question Involves Not the Pacific Coast Alone, but the Whole Nation, says a Recognized Authority / The Situation as it Actually Exists on the Pacific Coast and Remedies Suggested by organizations favoring Exclusion” - article within the newspaper American Legation Weekly
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Date Published: November 5 and 12, 1920
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Article in 2 issues of American Legation Weekly, November 5 and 12, 1920, Pp. 3-4 and 7-8. Original wrappers. Illustrated with photographs.

California's most prominent anti-Japanese racist of the 1920s and '30s, McClatchy was the just-retired co-publisher of the Progressive Sacramento Bee. Echoing anti-Chinese bigotry of the 1880s, McClatchy makes clear that he feared the "grave and imminent danger" to the "supremacy of the white race" in America. The newly-formed American Legion, which played a key role in formation that year of a Japanese Exclusion League, distributed McClatchy's rant to millions of World War I veterans. It was an early expression of his prolific racist writings, which continued up to his death in 1936 and laid the foundations, six years later, for the Nisei concentration camps of World War II.

Light wear and yellowing; near fine.