Report Id: 2214
Reported By
@DrAmbardar
Sep 16, 1906
Bellingham, WA
Puget Sound American Insinuates that Hindus are Invading the State
On September 16th, 1906, Puget Sound American, a newspaper in Bellingham, Washington state, writes a story with the headline, “Have We a Dusky Peril. Hindu Hordes Invading the State”. The brief of the article mentions, “Bellingham workmen are becoming excited over the arrival of the East Indian in numbers across the Canadian border, and fear that the dusky Asiatics with their turbans will prove a worse menace to the working classes than the ‘Yellow Peril’ that has so long threatened the Pacific coast.”
Date of Incident:
Sep 16, 1906
Location:
Bellingham, WA
Bellingham, WA
VICTIM TYPE:
Community
Community
Incident Type:
Media Bias, Bias, Other
Media Bias, Bias, Other
Perpetrator Name
Puget Sound American
Puget Sound American
Perpetrator Specification
Organization
Organization
Impact
50 Hindus
Total Incidents of Media Bias0
No. of Abuse0
No. of Bias0
No. of Bloggers0
Media Bias over 12 month
