Public hearings in 1920 against Japanese people that whipped up anti-immigrant sentiment and set the stage for a federal law that tied race to immigration rates for decades. Riots. Kidnapping investigations. A seminal legal decision in 1974 that re-established Puget Sound-area tribes’ right to catch half of the salmon in the state’s waters. Tacoma’s historic…
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