February 1889 – Tekoa, Washington Territory: Chinese Laborer Lynched by White Railroad Crew

[AI-generated placeholder. Deeper narrative coming soon.] In February 1889, near Tekoa in Washington Territory, an unnamed Chinese laborer was lynched by a mob of white railroad workers amid a labor dispute. The Daily Astorian reported that the victim was hanged “for daring to seek work on the railroad in defiance of [the] edict… that ‘no Chinese need apply’” (Mar. 6, 1889). The white laborers had warned that the Chinese were not welcome; when this man ignored the ban, he was seized and hanged from a railroad trestle. The lynching was explicitly driven by job competition and racial hatred, and the killers were never punished.