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Trailer. >Now airing on WETA. The Chinese Exclusion Act. Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years. Parallels the Jim Crow Era. Learn More, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/
NYT, REVIEW, PBS, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/arts/television/pbs-chinese-exclusion-act.html
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)NewDayOranges
(692 posts)OUR government hasn't gone to great lengths to PHUCK over... And we're REPEATING these mistakes again!
SHAMEFUL!
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT, (Wiki). The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. Building on the 1875 Page Act, which banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating.
The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the U.S.China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943, which allowed 105 Chinese to enter per year. Chinese immigration later increased with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which abolished direct racial barriers, and later by Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the National Origins Formula.
MORE, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
lunasun
(21,646 posts)hyperbole present sounds like Bigler????
Hey took it from indigenous tribes but then they were all full right away so sorry no one else now and we are mad you are trying