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    This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the story is finally being told

    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Nov 17, 2022 7 minutes
    Chin’ s Cafe, in Eureka, California, seen on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, was owned and operated by the late Ben Chin, who was said to be the first Chinese American to move to the town in seven decades.

    EUREKA, Calif. — Beauty drew Brieanne Mirjah D'Souza to Eureka.

    In 2018, she and her husband — Michigan natives who had been living for a spell in the Bay Area — moved up to this chilly old timber town to build a life beneath the redwoods and by the sea.

    But last winter, pregnant with her first child, D'Souza began reflecting on this pretty place she would bring her son into.

    D'Souza, a 32-year-old digital marketer, is of Chinese and West Indian descent. And Humboldt County is very white.

    As D'Souza's belly grew and the headlines told of a dramatic surge in anti-Asian hate crimes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, D'Souza set out to find other people who looked like her.

    A fledgling group started meeting over Zoom and trading emails. They learned there had once been a Chinatown in Eureka. Maybe they could commemorate it with a plaque, they figured.

    But where had it gone?

    ———

    In the late 19th century, Chinatown occupied a single block in the middle of the remote, misty port town.

    A few hundred Asian immigrants — mostly men — lived in Eureka after a federal law barred immigration in 1882.

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