Santa Ana unveils memorial for Chinatown destroyed by city-ordered fire

The burning is one of many episodes of anti-Asian violence rooted in the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first federal law to bar a specific ethnic group from immigrating.

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The city of Santa Ana, California, dedicated a memorial monument Saturday to its historic Chinatown, a Chinese immigrant community that the city ordered burned down nearly 120 years earlier.

Remembering the community

The memorial sits at the northeast corner of 3rd and Bush streets, facing the original Chinatown site. …