Jeanne D Petit: 1 book
The Men and Women We Want
Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the...
