1921 Union Parish Louisiana Delegate to Constitutional Convention Wants to Ban Japanese/Chinese Land Ownership
Submitted by:       Shawn Martin
Date of Submission: 12/2008

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1921 Union Parish Louisiana Delegate to Constitutional Convention Wants to Ban Japanese/Chinese Land Ownership

From Salt Lake City, Utah "Telegram", issue of 21 March 1921
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                         MOVEMENT AGAINST JAPS IN LOUISIANA

Shreveport, La., March 21 – J. S. Dykes of Union Parish, North Louisiana, a delegate 
to the state constitutional convention at Baton Rouge, announced today that he is 
preparing an ordinance, which, if enacted into the new constitution, will exclude 
Chinese and Japanese from ownership of land in Louisiana.  The lines of the Dykes 
ordinance follow those of the California law against alien landownership, he said.



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