ABSTRACT
This chapter examines San Francisco as a nodal city within interconnected global networks of migrants and radicals, while also situating its anarchist movement in relation to local conditions. The result suggests that the city's forgotten anarchist movement played a major role in both local interethnic organizing and transnational anarchism. Anarchism in San Francisco was overwhelmingly concentrated among the city's uniquely diverse immigrant population. The gold rush of 1848 drew prospectors to the region from across the globe, and completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 allowed a new wave of immigrants from eastern ports of entry to flood the city. Japanese and Indian workers remained on the fringes of the efforts, though they were often linked to them through informal ties. The spread and consolidation of anarchism also reflected the growing transnational connections of San Francisco's anarchist movement to revolutionary networks spanning much of the globe.
