Fifty years ago this month, on October 2, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed what became a revolutionary law.
The Hart-Celler Act, the Immigration and National Act Amendments of 1965, eliminated immigration quotas based on national origins.
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When LBJ Changed Immigration Forever
HISTORY LESSON
Fifty years ago this month, Johnson ended immigration quotas based on national origin, forever changing the face of the U.S.
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