San Francisco orders Chinese students into segregated school after earthquake

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, city officials move to enforce a rule sending Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students to a segregated Oriental Public School. The order provokes an international dispute with Japan and exposes racial segregation in Western schools. President Theodore Roosevelt criticizes the policy because of its foreign-policy consequences, but California and local officials continue fighting over Asian exclusion and school segregation. The dispute helps lead to the Gentlemen's Agreement limiting Japanese immigration. Anti-Asian racism shapes public education, immigration diplomacy, and local citizenship in the early twentieth century.