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Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

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An issue of the newspaper "The American Issue" from January 16, 1919

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1960 comic book warns young readers of the dangers ahead should Uncle Sam fail to steer clear of the "Red Iceberg."

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A Japanese soldier lies dead face down in the surf at the end of the Battle of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands 1944

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El Paso, Texas, 1927. U.S. Immigration Service Border Patrol inspectors in formation in front of the Border Patrol's first training facility in Camp Chigas.

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Citrus workers at the Hewes ranch in Tustin in the 1920s. Click for larger version.

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Woman points to anti-Japanese rhetoric sign outside of her California home in the 1920s.

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Mexican immigrants being inspected for lice.

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Mexican migrant sugar beet workers, living in a one room house in the 1920s.

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Preliminary health screening at Ellis Island, 1920s.

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Mexican Immigrants line up at a Braceros Processing Depot, c. 1920s

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In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the US where they…

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Race 2012: A Conversation About Race and Politics in America, a PBS election special. Check local listings.

Claire Jean Kim, Assoc. Prof., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, explains that this act instituted the national origins…

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Universal Newsreel clip of his sixth Fireside Chat (September 30th, 1934).

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