Mural Info
Artist: Anton Refregier
Location: Mission and Spear, South of Market
Current state: Available
Photo by: SF Mural Arts
Taken on: 4-Feb-2012
Views: 5079
Panel #19. After completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese flocked to San Francisco. They worked harder and for less money than white laborers and soon held half the city factory's jobs. Whites strongly opposed this competition and during the 1870's, beat and killed Chinese while destroying their property. The Chinese man in the foreground of this panel is about to have his pigtail cut off. Frank Roney, quoted at the base of the panel, was a San Francisco labor leader who opposed this mistreatment. (text from a plaque on the wall)
