The National Archives and Records Administration presents a National Conversation on Rights and Justice – Immigration: Barriers and Access in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California, on November 19, 2016.

The “National Conversation on Rights and Justice” in Los Angeles is presented in part by AT&T, Ford Foundation, Seedlings Foundation, Toyota, and the National Archives Foundation.

Related Records in the National Archives

Chinese Exclusion Act

In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.

Quota Areas, Immigration Act of 1924

The National Archives and Records Administration presents a National Conversation on Rights and Justice – Immigration: Barriers and Access in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California, on November 19, 2016. The “National Conversation on Rights and Justice” in Los Angeles is presented in part by AT&T, Ford Foundation, Seedlings Foundation, Toyota, and the National …