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Not officially,, of course. there never were official laws allowing blacks and others to be lynched. It was all quite a matter of the law looking the other way, of course. Unless you were Chinese living in California in the 1800s... then the actual law on the books said you could not file criminal charges against a white man for any crime he had committed against you or one which you were the sole witness... He could not be prosecuted unless another white man saw the same crime and was willing to testify to it. That was the law of California. Was it good? Was it RIGHT? Pay attention here, there's gonna be a quiz afterwards.