Image Above: "Rosedale Consolidated High School, now known as West Bolivar High School, Rosedale, MS, August, 2016." Courtesy Cameron Tichy.
The Chinese Exclusion Acts were passed to keep Chinese workers from immigrating and taking American jobs. This is the first and only group of people that were excluded from immigrating based upon their country. The Acts meant the Chinese could no longer come to the U.S., with few exceptions. Some still came with fake documents, known as "paper sons," pretending to be related to other people already here. The Acts affected where the Chinese migrated after the Civil War, and were in effect until during World War II.
