Please join the 1882 Foundation for a Brown Bag co-hosted with the DC Public Library DC Reads Program as we take part in the month-long series on The Refugees by Viet Thanh […]
A PBS "American Experience" Original Documentary (PG) The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 had a profound influence on immigration during and beyond its 60 year period of enforcement. This act […]
The first comprehensive immigration reform was enacted in 1882 to exclude Chinese from immigrating to the US and to prohibit them from becoming American citizens. Ted Gong, Director of the […]
JOIN US: Scott D. Seligman on Wong Chin Foo who challenged Denis Kearney on anti-Chinese laws, and a film screening of Rick Burns and Li-Shin Yu’s Chinese Exclusion Act.
