may 19, 1913 - California passes and Governor Hiram Johnson signs the Webb-Hartley Law, known as the Alien Land Law of 1913. This limits land leases for agricultural purposes to a length of three years and bars further land purchases by “aliens ineligible to citizenship.” The principle target group was understood to be Japanese
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may 19, 1913
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~ 113 years ago