I’d thought Boalt was a very established name and was surprised when they backed away from it. Wonder what he did? Accessing… John Henry Boalt was instrumental

I’d thought Boalt was a very established name and was surprised when they backed away from it. Wonder what he did? Accessing… John Henry Boalt was instrumental in legitimizing anti-Chinese racism and in catalyzing support for passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 — the nation’s first immigration ban on a specific group of people solely on the basis of race or nationality. Yet, until 2017, his views weren’t well known on campus. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/30/boalt-hall-denamed/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/30/boalt-hall-denamed/