Millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived at Ellis Island, but less known is that it's also where hundreds of thousands of Black people entered from the Caribbean. MauriceDuBoisTV spoke to a family in Queens about their journey of discovery.
About 60% of New Yorkers are immigrants or children of immigrants, but as Lean tells us, there's more to the story.
In 1921 and 1924, there were immigration quotas enacted. Lean says it was designed to"keep this country looking a certain way.""Definitely. And then after 1924, we see a large, like, restricting of people who are able to come into the country.
But there were notable exceptions for some Caribbean immigrants as they found a commonality in artistic and intellectual worlds as part of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond – people like Arturo Schomburg, writer Claude McKay and activist Marcus Garvey.
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