A 1903 law barred anarchists, epileptics and beggars. The harshest restrictions were enshrined in the Immigration Act of 1924, which imposed quotas that heavily favored people from northern and ...

The creation "1924" is Hanabusa's intriguing way of bringing attention to the Immigration Act of 1924, signed by President Calvin Coolidge. It was the idea of Hanabusa's mentor, Mike Murase ...

"The Immigration Act of 1924 was the greatest federal action in U.S. history – other than the Civil War Constitutional Amendments – in advancing the economic interests of the descendants of ...

Major Acts: The Immigration Act of 1924 implemented a national origins quota, providing immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of ...

Although the Japanese had not been subjected to total exclusion like the Chinese, they were, by virtue of the 1790 Naturalization Act, ineligible to become naturalized citizens. Affecting many other ...