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American Experience
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Season 30
Episode 7
The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
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The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the campaign to breed a “better” American race,
52:03
After attempting to commit the perfect crime, would two boys get the death penalty?
52:01
In the 1950's a Polio outbreak swept the U.S., devastating communities nationwide.
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1:49:22
The final months of WWII from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans.