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X-WR-CALNAME:History Book Festival Presents: Jia Lynn Yang - One Mighty & I
 rresistible Tide
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SUMMARY:History Book Festival Presents: Jia Lynn Yang - One Mighty & Irresi
 stible Tide
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DESCRIPTION:Jia Lynn Yang \, author of One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: Th
 e Epic\nStruggle Over American Immigration\, 1924-1965\, will join a\nconv
 ersation with readers via Zoom for a live\, interactive discussion\nof her
  new book. In 1924\, the United States Congress instituted an\nimmigration
  system of stringent ethnic quotas\, sharply curtailing\narrivals from sou
 thern and eastern Europe and outright banning those\nfrom nearly all of As
 ia. In the ensuing years\, a coalition of\nlawmakers and activists descend
 ed from Jewish\, Irish\, and Japanese\nimmigrants fought for reforms\, res
 ulting in the 1965 Immigration and\nNationality Act that opened the door t
 o nonwhite immigration at levels\nnever before seen. Jia Lynn Yang is a de
 puty national editor at The\nNew York Times who lives in Brooklyn\, NY. He
 r family immigrated to the\nUnited States from Taiwan in the 1970s. Online
  program from the\nHistory Book Festival and the Lewes Public Library. NOT
 E: this meeting\nis being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to rec
 eive\ninstructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Jia Lynn Yang \, author of One Mighty and Irre
 sistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration\, 1924-1965\, w
 ill join a conversation with readers via Zoom for a live\, interactive dis
 cussion of her new book. In 1924\, the United States Congress instituted a
 n immigration system of stringent ethnic quotas\, sharply curtailing arriv
 als from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearl
 y all of Asia. In the ensuing years\, a coalition of lawmakers and activis
 ts descended from Jewish\, Irish\, and Japanese immigrants fought for refo
 rms\, resulting in the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act that opened th
 e door to nonwhite immigration at levels never before seen. Jia Lynn Yang 
 is a deputy national editor at The New York Times who lives in Brooklyn\, 
 NY. Her family immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in the 1970s. O
 nline program from the History Book Festival and the Lewes Public Library.
  NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to 
 receive instructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
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