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American Experience delves into "The Chinese Exclusion Act"

Posted by Norman Weiss
Wednesday 5/30/18 at 1:00AM EDT
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    The new PBS documentary by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, premiering Tuesday night, is a sobering examination of the act Congress passed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the United States and Chinese nationals from becoming citizens.

    TOPICS: American Experience, PBS, Asian Americans and TV, Documentaries


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