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Excerpt from Olive Percival: Los Angeles Author and Bibliophile <p>In 1913, when California passed a land law discriminating against the Japanese, Miss Percival wrote a passionate letter of protest, which was printed in the Los Angeles Times and reprinted by the Japan Society of New York. To help defeat an alien land law initiative on the California ballot in 1920, she hired small boys to distribute several thousand pro-japanese brochures. The measure passed by an overwhelming majority. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.