Alien Land Acts

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Do yourself a favor and Google it.


The California Supreme Court finally overturned the entire 1920 law in Fujii v. State of California (1952),

Read more: Alien Land Laws http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5943/Alien-Land-Laws.html#ixzz0uxpyMRHp

Maybe if you read up on this case (Fujii v. State of California) ...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5469716869035421465&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr.

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The relevant 1911 U.S.-Japan treaty, however, did not mention protecting the property rights of Japanese persons residing on agricultural land in the United States. While facially neutral, this law relied on the federal racial prerequisite to NATURALIZATION—one had to be a “free white person” to become naturalized—to bar Japanese farmers from land ownership. This legal sanction was a response to the economic success of Japanese truck farmers in California in the early twentieth century.


Good info.