Yeah, the period from the end of Reconstruction till the Civil Rights era could be called "The Golden Age of American Racism".
Even Asian-Americans got to take part, and not just on the receiving end. I had a college buddy of Korean extraction whose mom was quite enthusiastic about letting the authorities know which of her neighbors were Japanese...
Oh, and I'd like to correct a previous post -- it's Admiral Louis Dreller, not Richard.
http://www.fau.edu/library/gen-adm51.htm The daughter mentioned in the article is the "sainted" mother of my sister-in-law. She's not dead, just modeled for an artist doing a series of drawings of all the saints after whom streets in Los Angeles are named...