Picture on Display in the Ellis Island

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5/3/2007

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The photo is from around 1920. It shows a woman pointing up a sign saying "JAPS KEEP MOVING - THIS IS A WHITE MAN'S NEIGHBORHOOD". In case this was not enough, the window has a sign saying "JAPS KEEP OUT" and some other illegible sign. Discrimination applied to all new Immigrants. The Irish could not be hired by private companies (Irish Need Not Apply) so they went to work as Police Officers, Fireman, and as politicians. Attacks on Italians were not limited to the printed page, however. From the late 1880s, anti-immigrant societies sprang up around the country, and the Ku Klux Klan saw a spike in membership. Catholic churches and charities were vandalized and burned, and Italians attacked by mobs. In the 1890s alone, more than 20 Italians were lynched. This is my photo of a picture on display at Ellis Island.
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Ellis Island, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Liberty State Park, State Park, New Jersey State Park, Gateway to America, Statue of Liberty, Legal Immigration, Gateway, Jersey City, NJ, Jersey, Hudson County, The Garden State, New York Harbor, New York City, NYC, New York, National Register of Historic Places, New Jersey Register of Historic Places, New York City Landmark

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