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It All Started at a Little Church in Tucson

Posted on December 19, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The Sanctuary Movement of the 1980’s Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Arizona, El Salvador, Guatamala, immigrants, James A. Corbett, refugees, Sanctuary Movement, Southside Presbyterian Church, Tucson | 6 Comments

1980: Good Times/Bad Times for Those Seeking Asylum in the U.S.

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Ken Dowell

Central Americans and U.S. refugee policy Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Central America, El Salvador, Guatamala, history, Refugee Act of 1920, refugees, Ronald Reagan | 3 Comments

‘There are the right kind of boat people, it seems, and the wrong kind’

Posted on December 5, 2021 by Ken Dowell

America’s response to the Haitian boat people Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged boat people, Haiti, Haitian refugees, history, immigration, racism, refugees | 13 Comments

FDR’s Black Eye

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Ken Dowell

How we closed the door on German Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Franklin Delano roosevelt, history, Holocaust, refugees, Wagner-Rogers Bill, World War II | 7 Comments

Ethnocentrism and the Roaring Twenties

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The creation of immigration quotas. Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged 1920's, Dillingham Commission, Emergency Quota Act of 1921, history, immigrants, Immigration Act of 1924, immigration quotas, Immigration Restriction League, national origins, nativism | 8 Comments

Lange/Liu: Images of the Depression

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Ken Dowell

From Hung Liu exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery Continue reading →

Posted in Art, History | Tagged art, deression, Dorothea Lange, history, Hung Liu, museums, National Portrait Gallery, painting | 3 Comments

Is This the Most Discriminatory Act of Congress Ever?

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged California, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese immigrants, history, Sen. John Miller | 8 Comments

Morality, Sexism or Racism? The Page Act of 1875

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Ken Dowell

Slamming the door on Asian women Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged California, Chinese immigrants, Horace F. Page, Page Act, prostitution, racism | 13 Comments

‘I Know Nothing.’ The Politics of Xenophobia in the 19th Century

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The rise and fall of the Know-Nothings Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged 1850's, Anti-Catholicism, bigotry, Bill the Butcher, history, Know-Nothings, Millard Fillmore, nativism, Samuel Morse, Xenophobia | 10 Comments

The Forty-Eighters: Immigrants for Social Justice

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Ken Dowell

German immigrant abolitionists. Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged 19th century, abolition, Carl Schurz, Forty-Eighters, German immigrants, Harold Raster, history, Karl Daniel Adolph douai | 3 Comments

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