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How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America

Ruth Milkman Dissent Magazine
The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America by Sarah R. Coleman Princeton University Press, 2021 The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration still with us today

The Great American Teacher Exodus

Nora De La Cour Convergence
Chronic disinvestment in public education, a corporate reform model that punishes student poverty, and the pandemic’s disruption of school life are making it impossible for teachers to do the job they love. Many educators are at their breaking point

SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism

Dan Berger Boston Review
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
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