Harada owned property before acquiring property from Gunnerson, "suggesting that this method of purchasing property was easily worked out." His neighbors noticed the purchase and attempted to get rid of his Japanese family by offering a windfall profit. The People of the State of California v. Jukichi Harada favored Harada, pointing to his right to own and purchase property "in good faith, with children's funds, and not as a circumvention of the alien land law." Americans in California responded negatively by insisting that Harada had violated the Alien Land Act, which eventually reached the press throughout the state and eastern regions of the United States. Furthermore, in 1948, Oyama v. California guaranteed “equal access to property regardless of race.” This case supported the impact and defeat of California's alien land laws several years after the decision. Americans perceived their racial superiority over the Asian community and attempted to reduce their employment opportunities. In addition to lawsuits, Japanese and Filipino Americans relied on strikes due to reduced income and racial discrimination. Asian communities, at the beginning of the 20th century, generally consisted of agricultural workers. Japanese and Filipino workers received less income for their work. The Japanese “launched a major strike in 1909 to protest living and working conditions and wage inequality.” The Americans responded by suppressing their protest with violence and arresting Japanese Americans for organizing the demonstration. The plantation industry refused to listen to their protest for racial equality in the workplace. Along with organizing demonstrations, Japanese and Filipino Americans founded the Japanese Federat...... middle of paper ......n Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and The American Dream. Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2012.Salyer, Lucy. “Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts.” Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History (2006): 1-77.Schrijvers, Peter. Bloody Pacific: American soldiers at war with Japan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Sledge, Eugene B. With The Old Breed. New York: Presidio Press, 1981. Starr, Kevin. Dreams in Battle: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.Villazor, Rose Cuison. “Rediscovering Oyama v. California: At the Intersection of Property, Race, and Citizenship.” Washington University Law Review 87 (2010): 979-1042.Weingartner, James J. “War Trophies: U.S. Troops and the Mutilation of the Japanese War Dead, 1941-1945.” Pacific Historical Review 61 (1992): 53-67.