1907 Bellingham race riot

[3] The mob threw the East Indian workers into the streets, beat them, and pocketed their valuables.

The authorities co-operated with the mob by corralling the beaten Indian immigrants into the City Hall, ostensibly for their safety.

[5] According to one report, disputed by local leaders and newspapers, six East Indians were hospitalized; no one was killed.

[6] Some victims of the riots migrated to Everett, Washington where two months later, they received similar treatment.

"[10] A granite monument, the Arch of Healing and Reconciliation, was erected in downtown Bellingham and dedicated in 2018 in memory of the three groups of Asian immigrants who were expelled from the region: the Chinese in 1885, the Indians in 1907, and the Japanese in 1942.

Article from the 16 September 1906 Puget Sound American newspaper incorrectly describing turbaned Sikhs as "Hindu" and their unfavorable immigration to Bellingham