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The 1924 United States immigration act specifically exempted from quota restriction professors and ministers of any religion as well as their wives and minor children

Leung's photo and birth certificate

“Tam Sing/Tom Sing, photos and documents” 1902, 1908, 1941; Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Tam Sing case file, Seattle Box 794, file 7030/12347.

View of the American Garden in the American factories in Guangzhou (Canton), China, 1844–45.

government permits of trade and two Hong merchants

Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. "The Chinese Exclusion Act" airs May 29 at 8/7c on PBS. Learn more…

the last page of the original copy of Chinese Exclusion Act

early steamship of the U.S. in the Old China Trade

the area of Guangzhou to which China's Western trade was restricted from 1757–1842

“Tong Chun Choy, Form 430 photo and business card,” 1943, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Tong Chum Choy (Thomas C. Tong) case file, Seattle Box 828, file 7030/13667.