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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.

Dr. Kin thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the generous deeds he has done on her behalf. She remarks upon a matter concerning passports, and wonders about the nature of immigration restrictions that do not allow people like her who have graduated from…

a 1870 cartoon that shows the white Americans kicked off the ladder by which the Chinese entered America

a few Chinese gold miners and their white coworkers on a railway track

New York Times runs a page-length report on Yamei Kin's trip to China to study soy food on USDA's behalf to alleviate the meat shortage of the U.S. during World War I.

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…