Lei Lynn Odom goes through the painstaking process of screening the dirt to find bits of history. Archeologists have found Chinese artifacts at the Palm Street parking garage dig on the site of historic Chinatown in San Luis Obispo in March 1987. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com More racism would unfold.

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In a few weeks, San Luis Obispo enacted a law attempting to force Chinese laundries out of the city limits. National anti-Chinese immigration laws followed. In April 1886, Chinese laborers working on a railroad project near Nipomo were confronted by a group, possibly from Arroyo Grande, and “told to leave, never to return, under pain of hanging.” The shame of our poorly remembered past is not the blueprint for our future.

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