On May 6th, 1882 – on the eve of the greatest wave of immigration in American history – President Chester A. Arthur signed into law a unique piece of federal legislation, called the Chinese Exclusion Act. Unlike any other law in American history before or since – except for subsequent measures extending it for well more than half a century – the act uniquely singled out by name a single race and nationality for special treatment: making it illegal for Chinese laborers to enter America on pain of imprisonment; for Chinese nationals to become citizens of the United States; and for Chinese immigrants already here to leave the country and re-enter it.
Join a discussion after the film with Burns, Li-Shin Yu, attorney and legal scholar Martin Gold, and NMAH curator Fath David Ruffins.
Among those in the audience was Brian Keane, who composed the score for the documentary, and historian James Loewen.
Panel (left to right): Fath David Ruffins, Martin Gold, Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu, and S. Xavier Carnegie.
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