Black Migrations 3
The theme for African American history month this year is "Black Migrations." Every Monday in February, Gloria Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, civil rights attorney, ASALH board member and chair of the 400th Commemoration, and author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present (Routledge, 2007), will join Brian and the callers to explore different facets of the theme. This week: 1965 and the end of immigration quotas.
"This has always been a part of immigration, this push to have this country stay White. So you had caps on not just the people of African descent, but caps on people from Asia," says @GBrowneMarshall on 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. pic.twitter.com/oDViXzTR2G
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 18, 2019
"You had to make a decision. You’re going to this new country and it’s not as easy in the 1960s, 70s and 80s just to fly back home if it didn’t work, so they had to make it work," says @GBrowneMarshall on how Black migration changed after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 18, 2019
"The blend of cultures, the intermarrying… at the end of the day we are living together and Brooklyn is that story of all those cultures coming together," says @GBrowneMarshall on Black migration after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 18, 2019
