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Immigration Act of 1917 Bans Asians, Other Non-White People from Entering U.S.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/5 Summary of the Act https://immigrationhistory.org/item/1917-barred-zone-act/ Literacy Tests and Asian Exclusion Were the Hallmarks of the 1917 Immigration Act One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-america-grappled-immigration-100-years-ago-180962058/ Immigration Act of 1917' Turns 100: America's Long History of Immigration Prejudice https://www.livescience.com/57756-1917-immigration-act-100th-anniversary.html |