Curated OER
History Matters: Shut the Door: A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction
Read the speech by a senator from South Carolina who used racist theories to support his argument for the Immigration Act of 1924. He was not alone in the Senate inhis support for restrictive immigration policies.
US Department of State
Iip Digital: The Immigration Act of 1965
A look at the Immigration Act signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965, the ramifications of the law, and the background of immigration law and quotas over several decades of American history.