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Assimilation and its limits in American history
An account of how the United States shaped a universalist civic ideal through immigration, education, and law, while bias and exclusion persisted for Blacks Indians Orientals and Mexicans. It traces 19th‑century melting pot myths, the segregation era, and postwar strides toward open society culminating in school desegregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes
United States
Rome
America
England
New
John Jacob Astor
William Astor
New York
Common School
Lincoln
Gettysburg
American Issues Forum
John Higham
Johns Hopkins University
Europe
Supreme Court
U.S
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Garrison