The stone has been brought from India and the arch will come up in April next year on the lawns of the Bellingham Public Library. However, the citizens of Bellingham are making amends for the misdeeds of the past by erecting a red-stone ‘Arch of Healing and Reconciliation’ and honouring the immigrants - the Indians were mostly Sikhs - in their persistence to defy racism in the US.
Sikh historian Seema Sohi, who got her doctorate from the University of Washington and wrote a book about these riots, ‘Echoes of Mutiny’, says there are uncanny parallels between then and now.
A mob of some 500 local White people attacked them, scattered their belongings, and forced them out. Bellingham in Whatcom County of Washington State in the US saw racial riots on September 4, 1907, when early Indian, Japanese and Chinese workers were forced to leave.
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