September 3, 1913 – Chicago, Illinois: Chinese American Married to White Woman Murdered by Neighbors

[AI-generated placeholder. Human narrative coming soon.] On September 3, 1913, in Chicago, Illinois, a 40-year-old Chinese-American restaurateur named Charles Sing, who was married to a white woman, was mortally attacked in his home by a small mob of white neighbors. He was “fatally beaten and stabbed” and died a few hours later, and his wife, Alice, was found beside him with a fractured skull (Bamberg Herald, Sept. 11, 1913). Police investigators concluded that Sing and his wife “were attacked by white men… because of his union with an American woman” (ibid.). Despite questioning several suspects (including a disgruntled maid in the household), no one was prosecuted. This lynching underscored how anti-Chinese racism intersected with anti-miscegenation sentiment even in a Northern city.