Yamashita v. Hinkle
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yamashita-v-hinkle-174-4119065
title:
Yamashita v. Hinkle
text:
Yamashita v. Hinkle, 260 U.S. 199 (1922), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of the state of Washington's Alien Land Law. The law prohibited Asians from owning property. Washington's attorney general maintained that in order for Japanese people to fit in, their "marked physical characteristics" would have to be destroyed, that "the Negro, the Indian and the Chinaman" had already demonstrated assimilation was not possible for them. The U.S. Supreme
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1922 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita_v._Hinkle
date created:
2018-11-12T12:20:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T02:48:48Z
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