![]() Photo Courtesy Michigan Tech Archives Charlie Sing and his son Charles came to the United States from China in 1882, just before the signing of the Exclusion Act. The younger Mr. Sing came to the Copper Country to try his hand at running one of Calumet's several laundry establishments--one of the few occupations that Chinese people could pursue, given the restrictions of the Exclusion Act. Fifteen different Chinese laundry operations are listed in the 1910 Houghton County Polk Directory. Relatively few Chinese-born women lived in the United States at this time; the Page Law of 1875 was used to exclude almost all Asian women from entering the country, including wives and fiancées, until it too was repealed with other discriminatory laws. ![]() The Pioneer Express, Pembina, North Dakota, 1911, p. 6. ![]() Photo Courtesy Michigan Tech Archives. |
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