At top, an account of the massacre in the Daily Southern Cross of Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 9, 1871,

Above, a detail of a Los Angeles map displayed in the Globe Lobby of the Los Angeles Times Building showing the Plaza and what the newspaper account described as “Negro Alley.”

Note: This is an encore post from 2013.

This is the anniversary of the Chinese Massacre of 1871. Here’s a series of posts I did several years ago:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Calle de los Negros — A Vanished Landmark