Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Editors: Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner , Brenda Wilmoth Lerner , and K. Lee Lerner
Date: 2006
From: Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
Publisher: Gale
Document Type: Legislation
Length: 2,752 words
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Legislation

By: United States Congress

Date: May 6, 1882

Source: "Chinese Exclusion Act." United States Congress, May 6, 1882.

About the Author: The Forty-seventh United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882; ten years later the Fifty-second Congress renewed the act's provisions and strengthened Chinese immigration laws with the Geary Act.

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"Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)." Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources, edited by Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 378-382. link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2560000140/AONE?u=gale&sid=bookmark-AONE. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
  

Gale Document Number: GALE|CX2560000140