Enjoy a discussion streamed from our 19th-century lager beer saloon on the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, the most comprehensive immigration restriction to date and the first immigration law to explicitly exclude Europeans.
Between 1880 and 1924, 23 million immigrants entered the country, and New York’s population jumped from 1 million to over 5 million. The primary sources of immigration to NYC were Italy and Russia. But in 1921 and 1924, Congress established national origin quotas, ending an era of immigration.
Tenement Museum President Annie Polland and Mae Ngai, award-winning historian and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at Columbia University, look at the long-term legal ramifications of the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924. They discuss the law’s impact on the Eastern European Jewish and Italian immigrants of New York’s tenements with Eric Goldstein, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University, and Maddalena Marinari, Professor of History, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.
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'Three Historians Walk Into a Saloon' is our newest virtual Tenement Talk mini-series. Set in our 19th-century recreated lager beer saloon, where tenement dwellers gathered to read newspapers and debate the headlines, this series features today’s leading historians reliving some of the topics discussed long ago and delving into important turning points in our country’s history.
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This program is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by Con Edison. It is also sponsored by a Humanities New York Action Grant.
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