Resolution to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
3/15/1924
Add to Favorites:
Add all page(s) of this document to activity:
In this letter, the Croatian League of Illinois protested against the Immigration Act of 1924 because it restricted immigration from "Jugo-Slavia." It comes from a file about public opinion regarding quotas and other proposed restrictive immigration laws from 1924–1928. This file consists primarily of telegrams and correspondence between the Department of Labor, Bureau of Immigration headquarters, and members of the public on proposed changes to the immigration laws that made them generally more restrictive. As time went on, the focus of the correspondence was on Section 11 of the Immigration Act of 1924 that used aliens' national origins as opposed to country of birth in computing the quotas, which disparately affected different nationalities and ethnic groups compared to the existing quotas. This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2014 Summer Workshop in Washington, D.C.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
National Archives Identifier: 12013863
Full Citation: Resolution from the Croatian League of Illinois to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization; 3/15/1924; Pro- and Con- Public Opinion Re: Quotas and Other Proposed Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1924 - 1928; (55374/751); Subject and Policy Files, 1893 - 1957; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/resolution-committee-immigration-naturalization, January 26, 2025]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.
