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2 stories matching contribut
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- Six Sick Passengers Don't Justify Barring Six Hundred, Editor Tells the Times
After spinal meningitis strikes Filipino steerage passengers, the Seattle Daily Times wants the ships to stop carrying them. This paper calls that nonsense.
- The Chinese Girl Barred From the Y.W.C.A. Pool
In a 1926 essay, a Chinese writer catalogues American prejudice—segregated Y.M.C.A.s, a church donor’s daughter turned away from a swimming pool, and lecturers who twist China to fit their biases.