L.A. officials put out a call for conceptual ideas for the memorial and plan to name the artist or firm who will develop the memorial in March 2023.
left at least 18 Chinese people, an estimated 9% of L.A.'s Chinese population, dead at a time when the city barely registered 5,700 people. The victims included the Chinese community’s only physician, Dr. Gene Tong.
“We are ... awakening to the fact that so much of U.S. history is covered history or underreported history or inaccurate history,” said Gay Yuen, Friends of the Chinese American Museum Board of Directors chairperson. “This history is our story. It’s who we are and what we are. This memorial is important because it allows us to unfold and point to a segment of U.S. history, of L.A. history, that’s been buried for 150 years.
“Our Chinese and Chinese American communities — then and now — are critical threads in the fabric of our rich cultural tapestry,” Garcetti said in a statement. “The 1871 massacre of innocent lives is a stain in our history that no monument can begin to erase. This memorial will serve as a public commemoration of the lives lost and a warning against senseless violence within our own communities.”
“The fact that city of L.A. is really stepping up, not just with symbolism but making a financial commitment, it means a lot to Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans,” he said. “The massacre in 1871 was not only the biggest mass killing of Chinese in California history, but the biggest mass killing of any kind in Los Angeles history,” Woo said. “L.A. in the 1870s was considered a Wild West town. It was one of the most lawless places west of Arizona and New Mexico. It’s hard to imagine what it was like.”
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