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Anti-Chinese Rioters Killed Look Young
Narrative
On Halloween night in 1880, anti-Chinese rioters surged through Denver’s Chinese quarter, destroying laundries and homes, beating residents, and killing Look Young, a Chinese laundry worker. St. Albans Daily Messenger said Denver had been “in the hands of a mob for eight hours” and described 1,500 rioters attacking Chinese homes, while St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that “one Chinaman was lynched.” The riot formed part of a larger anti-Chinese campaign of expulsion and terror fueled by labor conflict, racial politics, and calls to drive Chinese residents out of the city.