Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
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Title: Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
Reading Age: 10 - 12 years
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publish Date: January 07, 2014
Pages: 96 pages
Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780547903781
Condition: New
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Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, the other Ellis Island processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the wall poems discovered at the facility long after it closed, the nonfiction master Russell Freedman describes the people who came, and why; the screening process; detention and deportation; changes in immigration policy; and the eventual renaissance of Angel Island as a historic site open to visitors. Includes archival photos, source notes, bibliography, and index.