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Eighth segment of Bill Moyers' Documentary "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience." Episode Title: "No Turning Back." This video is intended for educational purposes only.

the sample Chinese Exclusion files shows what documents a Chinese needs to carry before entering the U.S. and what a Chinese person experience at the customs

a Chinese man was receiving questioning at Angel Island when Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect.

David Loo's birth certificate and American passport

Before he left San Francisco in 1902, Tom Sing swore in a Declaration of Chinese Merchant so that he would be able to reenter the U.S. Merchants were in the category exempt from Chinese Exclusion Act.

In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark had acquired U.S. citizenship at birth. Learn the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act in a special presentation of American Experience, coming to PBS on Tuesday, May 29 at 8/7c. Learn more at…

E. Samantha Cheng explores the Chinese community in the Delta, beginning with the first 16 Chinese who immigrated there during the 19th century in her latest documentary, “Honor and Duty: The Mississippi Delta Chinese.”

Chinese workers work in snow to build the transcontinental railroad of the U.S. and a Chinese worker's certificate of identity