The materials on this website are presented by the Federal Judicial Center. In this case, a Chinese immigrant's petition to reenter the United States divides a California federal court and forces the Supreme Court to decide if immigrants' rights are protected by the nation's treaties.

This site presents articles and images from the pages of Harper's Weekly related to the Chinese-American experience in the late 19th century.

This online exhibit from the New-York Historical Society chronicles the complex history of the Chinese in America, from the early days of the China trade to the history of Chinese immigration and the life of Chinese Americans.

This annotated bibliography contains selected United States Federal public documents relating to the Chinese Exclusion laws. These laws which prohibited the immigration of Chinese into the United States were in force from 1882 until 1943.

This digital collection illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. The materials in this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley; and The California Historical Society, San Francisco.

This site from the National Archives and Records Administration and the National Archives Foundation contains primary sources related to the Chinese Exclusion Act and Chinese immigration.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Set on Chinese immigration.

The digital collections of the Harvard University Library document voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression, including Chinese immigration.

Educational resources from the National Archives and Records Administration.

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