The Great Migration

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    The Great Migration and the Chinese Exclusion Act

  • The Chinese exclusion act

    In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur

  • Chinese exclusion act expired in 1892

    the act expired but was extended for 10 more years in form of the Geary act

  • The Geary act

    added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation.

  • The Geary Act

    regulated Chinese immigration until the 1920s.
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    1920's movement

    In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south
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    1930's Movement

    398,000 blacks migrated south in the 1930s
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    The Great Migration

    Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.

  • Congress repealed all the exclusion acts

    a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.