This neighborhood became predominantly African-American in the latter half of the 20th century. Many Russian immigrants were Jews who fled the persecutions, known as pogroms, which were prevalent ...

New York was once again a city of immigrants ... for much of the 20th century (specifically, from the late 1920s to the early 1970s) New York had been an American-born city, especially after ...

In terms of Nobel Prizes, 40 percent of American laureates are immigrants. The transition from the 19th to the 20th century ...

to the way in which the American public perceived the Ku Klux Klan in the early part of the 20th century. Harris, a staunch advocate of more permissive immigration policy, made the comparison ...