How to pronounce“yick”in English
The immigrants fought back through the courts.
In 1886, in the case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins the United States Supreme court ordered San Francisco to grant Chinese-operated laundries licenses to operate.
Then in 1898 in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Court ruled that American born children of Chinese immigrants were entitled to citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which should have been a duh but wasn’t.
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Definitions of “yick”
Used to indicate disgust
“1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I really liked her a lot & got a lot of lesbian (yick I hate that word, I'll just say homosexual) feelings from her that I didn't find unpleasant.”