Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion
Made up of a relatively small group of notable public figures, this ad hoc organization successfully leveraged its influence to persuade other organizations and members of the public to lobby Congress...
View ArticleCitizenship
Under the U.S. Constitution and laws of the United States, the status of citizenship entitles possessors, whether native born or naturalized, to all established civil rights and also includes the duty...
View ArticleU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The mandate given to this federal bureau was to establish immigration services, policies, and priorities that preserve the United States as a nation of immigrants by ensuring that no one is admitted...
View ArticleCivil Rights movement
The U.S. government’s policies regarding immigration have historically reflected prevailing racial and cultural biases held by Americans with the most power.
View ArticleU.S. Civil War
Immigrants played leading roles in the Civil War and the reconstruction of the South. Apart from slavery, few issues were as important in Civil War America as immigrants and immigration policy.
View ArticleLiz Claiborne
One of the most successful female entrepreneurs in American business history, Belgian-born Claiborne founded Liz Claiborne, Inc., in 1976.
View ArticleCLOTILDE slave ship
The case of the Clotilde marks the end of successful slave trading by American vessels and is notable both for the evasion of U.S. Navy patrols attempting to interdict such voyages and the eventual...
View ArticleCoal industry
The American coal industry relied heavily on immigrant labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
View ArticleCoalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
Since its creation, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) has worked as an immigrant advocacy group with Southern California’s Los Angeles County.
View ArticleU.S. Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a unique multimission, maritime agency categorized as one of five branches of the U.S. armed forces.
View ArticleColombian immigrants
Although Colombian immigrants are relative newcomers to the United States, their numbers began increasing greatly during the last decades of the twentieth century.
View ArticleColorado
Colorado has a unique immigration history that has been affected by its mining, agriculture, and tourism industries.
View ArticleU.S. Commission on Civil Rights
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a federal commission tasked with protecting the civil rights of all people residing in the United States.
View ArticleU.S. Commission on Immigration Reform
The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform was the most far-reaching body charged with examining immigration legislation during the last decade of the twentieth century.
View ArticleU.S. Congress
Since 1875, Congress has played the major role in determining U.S. immigration law and policy.
View ArticleConnecticut
Immigrants contributed heavily to the growth of Connecticut’s labor unions.
View ArticleU.S. Constitution
As the fundamental law of the United States, the U.S. Constitution empowers the U.S. Congress to pass federal immigration and citizenship laws providing such laws do not violate the provisions of the...
View ArticleContract labor system
During the mid-nineteenth century, a labor shortage in the western United States led to creation of a contract labor system to help the mining and railroad industries attract cheap immigrant labor to...
View ArticleCoolies
Chinese coolies came to the United States both as free immigrants looking for work and as contract workers hired to build America’s first transcontinental railroad.
View ArticleCredit-ticket system
During the mid- to late nineteenth century, the fares Chinese immigrants crossing the Pacific Ocean to the United States paid ranged from fifteen to forty-five dollars—amounts that few Chinese workers...
View ArticleCrime
The development of organized criminal activities among certain ethnic groups has perpetuated the notion that undesirable elements of society have been disproportionately represented among new immigrant...
View ArticleCriminal immigrants
Over time the federal government has passed numerous laws and increased enforcement efforts to thwart the entry of criminal immigrants and to make it easier to deport alien criminals who are in the...
View ArticleCuban immigrants
The overwhelming majority of Cubans who have immigrated into the United States have settled in Florida, whose political, economic, and cultural life they have transformed.
View ArticleCultural pluralism
As a concept cultural pluralism is an alternative to the “melting pot” view that immigrants should assimilate to American culture by abandoning their own cultures, languages, and other traditions.
View ArticleCzech and Slovakian immigrants
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, about one-sixteenth of all European Czechs immigrated to America, while the Slovaks made up the sixthlargest group of immigrants during this...
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