RACE & ETHNICITY IN AMERICAN HISTORY

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Antebellum Opinions on Immigration

Report of Col. Berens on New York Draft Riots (1863)

Francis A. Walker, "Restriction of Immigration" (1896)

Robert DeCourcy Ward, "Immigration and the South" (1905)

William Ripley, "Races in the United States" (1908)

Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916)

Summary of Immigration Laws, 1875-1918

Summary of Quota Laws (1921, 1924)

Summary of Depression & World War II Immigration Laws, 1929-1948

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Summary of Major Postwar Immigration Laws (1952-1996)

Highlights of Naturalization Laws (1790-1990)

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