A woman holds a sign as she attends a rally protesting anti-Asian bigotry at the Logan Square Monument in Chicago, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that ...

1. The Page Act (1875) The Page Act of 1875 has been recognized as the first federal anti-immigration law and was covertly aimed at disrupting Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. to perform ...

(Duncan1890/Getty Images) The Page Act of 1875 | Just a few years later, President Ulysses Grant signed the Page Act into law in 1875, which ended the practice of open borders that the U.S. had ...

Dolly and Adrian examine the 2021 Atlanta mass tragedy, reconciling it with the existence of the 1875 Page Act that explicitly banned “immoral" Chinese women. Dolly interviews scholars who study ...

There were no federal immigration restrictions until the Page Act of 1875 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, when Congress banned imported Chinese workers as well as convicted criminals.

Colorado L. Rev., forthcoming. The Page Act of 1875 excluded Asian women immigrants from entering the United States, presuming they were prostitutes. This presumption was tragically replicated in ...

The Page Act of 1875 restricted Asian women from immigrating here — under the guise of preventing lewd behavior in the U.S. She says these women were often seen as sex workers and sources of ...

The Page Act of 1875 blocked Asian women from entering the U.S. through a prohibition against prostitution, reflecting a widespread assumption that Asian women were undesirables engaged in sex ...

The Page Act of 1875, outlawing “lewd and immoral” Chinese women, codified the bigotry directed at Asian women from their earliest migration to the US to today. A woman holds a sign as she ...