1927-1930: Neighbors protest Asian and Black students living at International House
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1927-1930: Neighbors protest Asian and Black students living at International House
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800 community members assembled to protest racial integration at International House.
Fraternity members living on Piedmont Avenue argued they should not have to live with "niggers and chinks."
Sources:
"Berkeley : a city in history" by Charles Wollenberg (2008), page 103
"Teaching America to the World and the World to America" edited by Lisa Jarvinen and R. Garlitz (2002)
"Foreign Students and the Berkeley International House, 1928-1961 : oral history transcript" https://archive.org/details/berkeleyinterhouse00blairich/page/n258/mode/1up
"International House Berkeley: An Extraordinary History" (2022), page 2 https://ihouse.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/historybook2022_update2.10.pdf
