July 1911 – El Paso, Texas: Rare 20th-Century Lynching of a Chinese Man

[AI-generated placeholder. Human narrative coming soon.] In July 1911, newspapers reported what was described as a rare lynching of a Chinese man near El Paso, Texas – an exceptionally unusual occurrence by the 1910s. The details were sparse and possibly conflated with anti-Chinese violence across the border during the Mexican Revolution. According to the press accounts (repeated in multiple papers), a Chinese man was seized by a mob and killed, but his name and the exact motive were not recorded. Some later investigations suggest the incident may have actually happened just over the border in northern Mexico. Given the scant and ambiguous documentation, this case remains unresolved, but it stands out as one of the last reported lynchings of a Chinese person in North America.