Law Practice
Apr. 2, 2019
What Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ can teach us today
Contemporary debates about demographic change are not new. It isn’t easy to remember the past. It also isn’t simple to interpret the past.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
Very soon after an earthquake almost destroyed the city, the government of San Francisco decided that children of Japanese heritage could not attend public schools. A generation before, they had done the same with children of Chinese lineage. After the Japanese government protested this discrimination, President Teddy Roosevelt intervened. In February of 1907, Roosevelt negotiated the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement" to resolve the diplomatic crisis, and personally s...
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