Join the Butte Archives at noon on Wednesday, February 8, as Mark Johnson talks about Chinese woodcutters in Butte and the crucial service they provided to the people and the mines of Butte in the 1880s. While Montana’s Chinese residents did not suffer a major outbreak of mob violence, they still faced racial discrimination in their public and private lives. Johnson will speak about leaders within the Chinese community who organized resistance to anti-Chinese boycotts.

Johnson is a professor in the Faculty of Supervision and Instruction at the University of Notre Dame. He attended Carroll College and was the chair of the English department at the Concordia International School in Shanghai for eight years. He said he established National History Day in China and trained hundreds of teachers across Asia to implement a project-based learning approach. His students in Shanghai became crucial researchers in his project on the history of Chinese Montanans.

The Brown Bag Lunch will begin at noon and run about an hour at the Archives, 17 W. Quartz Street. The Archives recommends masks for the safety of our patrons. Coffee and water will be served and guests may bring a sack lunch.

For more information, contact the Archives at 782-3280.