Evento
Nihon Shōgakkō fire: 10 Japanese-American children are killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a Japanese Buddhist mission school in Sacramento
15 abr 1923 · 38.58° N, 121.50° W
Lo que dicen los registros
- Cuándo
- 15 abr 1923
- Tipo
- Evento
- Coordenadas
- 38.58° N, 121.50° W
Situado en: coordinates of the event it links, Japanese mission school fire.
Resumen
Nihon Shōgakkō fire: 10 Japanese-American children are killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a Japanese Buddhist mission school in Sacramento, California, by an itinerant Mexican-American serial arsonist.
Japanese mission school fire
1923 anti-Japanese arson in California
The Nihon Shōgakkō fire, or Japanese mission school fire, was a racially motivated arson that killed ten children in Sacramento, California, on April 15, 1923, at the dormitory of a Buddhist boarding school for students of Japanese ancestry. Fortunato Valencia Padilla, a Mexican-American itinerant from the Rio Grande Valley, admitted to committing the arson after his arrest in July 1923.
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