Section 1
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
One clause came out of the immigration law in 1965, and within twenty years the census was counting eleven times as many people. This section covers what the Act actually removed, what stood in its place for the sixty years before it, and how the change shows up in the tables.
3 pieces in this section
- 1.1The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965Removing the national-origin quotas turned a few thousand people into one of the fastest-growing populations in the country within two decades.
- 1.2Before the Act: Hawaii, 1903The first arrivals were recruited to sugar plantations, a few thousand people, and then the door effectively closed for sixty years.
- 1.3What changed in two decadesThe growth is legible in census tables before it is legible on any street.