August 14, 1884 – El Paso, Texas: In a Rare Act of Anti-Chinese Violence in Texas, Local Citizens Lynched a Chinese Immigrant

In August 1884 in El Paso, Texas, a Chinese immigrant was lynched by a mob. This was one of the few recorded anti-Chinese lynchings in Texas. Contemporary accounts provide little detail, but the incident demonstrates that anti-Chinese violence occasionally occurred even outside the western states.