Our current immigration system traces its roots back nearly 60 years to the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. Legislators designed this law to remove the 1924 National Origins Act's restrictions and change how ideas about race informed the immigration system. Learn more in this YouTube Live talk.
Tenement Museum Three Historians Walk Into A Saloon: 1965 Monday, February 5 6:30 PM ET
Register: https://www.tenement.org/events/virtual-tenement-talk-three-historians-walk-into-a-saloon-1965/