American Decades
Nativism versus Immigration
"Guarding the Gates Against Undesirables"
Magazine article
By: Ku Klux Klan
Date: April 1924
Source: "Guarding the Gates Against Undesirables." Current Opinion, April 1924, 400–401.
About the Organization: The Ku Klux Klan was organized in 1866, in Pulaski, Tennessee, located near the Alabama border. The Klan's mysterious name derives from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, the oldest symbol of unity.
Speech by Robert H. Clancy
Speech
By: Robert H. Clancy
Date: 1924
Source: Clancy, Robert H. Speech. Congressional Record, 68th Congress, 1st Session, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924, vol. 65, 5929–5932.
About the Author: Robert H. Clancy (1882–1962) was a four-term Republican congressman from Detroit, Michigan. In the 1920s, Clancy represented a...
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1920's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "Return to Normalcy"
- Nineteenth Amendment
- Anti-Lynching Publicity Program
- The Pivot of Civilization
- "Canal-Boat Children"
- "The Negro's Greatest Enemy"
- Nativism versus Immigration
- Taxation: The People's Business
- Tennessee Laws Regarding the Teaching of Evolution
- Letter from Nicola Sacco to His Son, Dante
- "Native American Chiefs Frank Seelatse and Jimmy Noah Saluskin of the Yakima Tribe"
- The Problem of Indian Administration
- Behind the Scenes in Candy Factories
- Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves and Activities of the Continental Trading Co. (LTD.) of Canada
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- "Rugged Individualism"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
