{"id":42926,"date":"2015-09-27T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42926"},"modified":"2015-09-27T17:15:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T17:15:25","slug":"the-1965-act-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42926","title":{"rendered":"The 1965 Act at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1965 Act at 50<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam S.I. Goodman<\/strong><\/a>
\n2015-09-24<\/p>\n

Adam Goodman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
\nPresident Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a> signing the Hart-Celler Act<\/a>, 3 October 1965, Liberty Island<\/a>, NY, NY.\u00a0(Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library<\/a>\/Yoichi Okamoto<\/a>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1965 Immigration Act<\/a><\/em>. By eliminating the discriminatory national-origins quota system<\/a>, the Act created new opportunities for people from across the world to migrate to the United States. But it also restricted immigration from the Western Hemisphere<\/a> for the first time, contributing to the subsequent growth of undocumented migration in the decades to come.<\/p>\n

Understanding the 1965 Act and its consequences is essential to understanding the history of the United States during the last half century…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1965 Act at 50 Adam S.I. Goodman 2015-09-24 Adam Goodman President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Hart-Celler Act, 3 October 1965, Liberty Island, NY, NY.\u00a0(Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library\/Yoichi Okamoto) Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1965 Immigration Act. By eliminating the discriminatory national-origins quota system, the Act created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[21209,21212,21211,21208,21210,21213,13320],"class_list":["post-42926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-1965-immigration-act","tag-adam-goodman","tag-adam-s-i-goodman","tag-hart-celler-act","tag-immigration-and-nationality-act-of-1965","tag-lyndon-b-johnson","tag-lyndon-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42928,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42926\/revisions\/42928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}