15. Industrialization, Class, and Race:
Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late-19th-Century Northwest
Committee of Fifteen
Tacoma's "Committee of Fifteen," who were in charge of organizing the expulsion of the Chinese in 1885, included among its members some of the city's most prominent businessmen. One of them, James Wickersham, went on to become a federal judge. (Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Social Issues Files Cb, UW negative #1679.)