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 ...

Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of ... During the first two decades of the 20th century, the Commissioner-General of Immigration, the head of the federal Bureau of ...

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 ...

Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open immigration that began in the late 19th century and continued into the early 20th century. However, only about 20,000 found their way ...

Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of ... During the first two decades of the 20th century, the Commissioner-General of Immigration, the head of the federal Bureau of ...

America Should Remain a Beacon of Hope for ... Thus, virtually all Communist genocides — and almost every major genocide of the 20th century was a Communist genocide — did not entail the ...

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

Those who passed were given a landing card and started the search for the American Dream ... numbers of these immigrants living in such conditions in the early 20th century.

Datshiane: And a series of laws were introduced setting a maximum for the number of immigrants allowed into the USA each year. Katie: There'll be more on 20th-century American history in our next ...