The Pacific Northwest has been inhabited for at least 13,000 years and possibly much longer. More…

Europeans vie for territory in the region and spread diseases among the tribal population. More…

Euro-American settlers arrive on the Oregon Trail. Tribal people are dispossessed and Blacks excluded. More…

The Lummi Chief Chow-its-hoot allows Henry Roeder and Russell Peabody to build a lumber mill. More…

Lummi and other tribes are forced onto reservations within three years of first Euro-American settlers. More…

The Territory denies citizenship to Blacks and supports the rights of slave owners who arrive with slaves. More…

Chinese immigrants come for jobs in the coal mines, clearing land, or working as cooks and servants. More…

Many indigenous children are forcibly removed from their families, communities, and culture. More…

The Federal Chinese Exclusion Act denies entry of Chinese into the US. It is not repealed until 1943. More…

A settler mob lynches an indigenous teenage boy. More…

Chinese residents are expelled from Bellingham in a campaign led by a local newspaper. More…

Local canneries employ immigrant labor but workers are confined to company property. More…

Controversy at State Normal School (now WWU) when first Black student, Alma Clark, is admitted. More…

South Asian workers, many of them Sikhs, come to work in the lumber mills in Bellingham. More…

On September 4, 1907, South Asians workers are attacked and forced to leave Bellingham. More…

The Ku Klux Klan establishes a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest, including Bellingham. More…

Over 700 participants march through Bellingham in a KKK parade on May 15, 1926. More…

The mayor of Bellingham presents the key to the city to the Grand Dragon during KKK convention. More…

Bellingham deeds stipulate white-only ownership and residence on the property, except for servants. More…

In June, 1942, residents of Japanese origin are taken from Bellingham to internment camps. More…

Police officers routinely drive Blacks to the outskirts of the city and tell them to leave. More…

Students of Color protest WWU’s inadequate response to racism. More…

Federal courts affirm native fishing rights amid violence against Lummi fishers. More…

A burning cross is left in the driveway of a migrant workers’ camp outside Bellingham. More…

Two students of color at WWU are attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads living in Bellingham. More…

Hate speech and racist materials are delivered to various people of color. More…

Fortress of Faith Radio airs and is soon recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. More…

Classes are canceled on November 24, 2015, in response to hate speech posted on social media. More…

Albertsons/Haggen/Safeway conglomerate blocks grocery store for racially diverse neighborhoods. More…

A string of incidents lead to the formation of a Task Force on Preventing and Responding to Anti-Semitism. More…

Islamophobic flyers and graffiti are found at the university on three occasions. More…

Influential member of white supremacist group who lived in Blaine and Bellingham is convicted. More…

16 Latinx immigrants in Bellingham are arrested and sent to the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center. More…

Racist graffiti appears at multiple locations on campus, prompting student protests. More…

Numerous sites in Bellingham and across Whatcom County are targeted with hate propaganda. More…

Report finds 56 missing Native American women across the state including 5 from Whatcom County. More…

Though our community increasingly supports racial justice, random acts of racism still occur. More…

Though many policies seek to address racism, traces of structural racism prove hard to root out. More…