Fordham Law School's APALSA and Center on Asian Americans and the Law Co-Present the trial reenactment: 22 Lewd Chinese Women: Chy Lung v. Freeman.

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In 1874, a ship arrived in the port of San Francisco carrying 600 passengers from China. A state official inspected the passengers and determined that 22 Chinese women, who were traveling alone, were prostitutes. He required a bond of $500 each for the women to disembark. The captain refused to post the bonds, and the women were detained under California law.

Legal proceedings followed, including a four-day trial and appeals all the way to the United States Supreme Court, raising issues of due process, human and civil rights, and the power of states to regulate immigration.

This program tells the story of the women, through narration, reenactment of court proceedings, and historic photographs.

CLE credit will be available.