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The Anti-Jap Laundry League was an organization founded in 1908 in the United States by the . The league, based in San Francisco, attempted to financially harm laundries run by Japanese Americans using four different tactics: picketing laundries, following customers back to their homes and intimidating them, preventing the laundries from purchasing equipment, and threatening public officials who refused to punish the laundries. They successfully ruined many Japanese laundries in this way. In the laundries run by league members, posters such as the following were hung on the walls:

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  • The Anti-Jap Laundry League was an organization founded in 1908 in the United States by the . The league, based in San Francisco, attempted to financially harm laundries run by Japanese Americans using four different tactics: picketing laundries, following customers back to their homes and intimidating them, preventing the laundries from purchasing equipment, and threatening public officials who refused to punish the laundries. They successfully ruined many Japanese laundries in this way. In the laundries run by league members, posters such as the following were hung on the walls: Are our boys and girls wrongIn expecting you who make your livingExclusively off the white raceTo stop patronizing Jap laundries.And thereby assist your fellow men and womenIn maintaining the white man's standard in a white man's country?Anti-Jap Laundry League. California Attorney General Ulysses S. Webb put great effort into enforcing laws against Asian ownership of property. (en)
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  • The Anti-Jap Laundry League was an organization founded in 1908 in the United States by the . The league, based in San Francisco, attempted to financially harm laundries run by Japanese Americans using four different tactics: picketing laundries, following customers back to their homes and intimidating them, preventing the laundries from purchasing equipment, and threatening public officials who refused to punish the laundries. They successfully ruined many Japanese laundries in this way. In the laundries run by league members, posters such as the following were hung on the walls: (en)
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  • Anti-Jap Laundry League (en)
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