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Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain

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Angel Island, off the coast of California, used to be the port of entry for Asian immigrants to america between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, “the opposite Ellis Island” processed around 1,000,000 folks from Japan, China, and Korea. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the “wall poems” came upon on the facility long after it closed, the nonfiction master Russell Freedman describes the individuals who came, and why; the screening process; detention and deportation; changes in immigration policy; and the eventual renaissance of Angel Island as a historic website open to guests. Includes archival photos, source notes, bibliography, and index.

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