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Chinese Exclusion Act (1892), 43, 87, 113, 402, 415
cholera, 31, 85–87, 91, 101, 132, 198 Christian Front, 354
Churchill, Winston, 268
Citizens’ Union, 115
Civil Censorship Division, 363, 364 Civil Rights Act, 385
civil rights movement, 384, 385–86, 389 Civil Service Commission, 139
Civil Service rules, 138–39, 140
Civil War, U.S., 12, 48, 53, 63, 64, 130, 137, 140, 166, 297
Claghorn, Kate Holladay, 191
Clark, Kenneth, 404
Clark, Tom, 365, 372
Cleveland, Grover, 30, 44, 46, 63, 91, 105–6, 109, 110, 128
literacy bill vetoed by, 105–6, 129, 183 Coblenz, Schimen, 173–74
Colcock, Roland, 281
Cold War, 9, 14, 349, 360, 371, 381, 397 Commerce and Labor Department, U.S., 204, 233, 236, 266, 273 Commerce Department, U.S., 387 Commission on Immigration, U.S., 229–30
Commission on Immigration Reform, U.S., 413
Commons, John R., 101
Communists, 359, 360, 361, 373, 374–75
Congress, U.S., 6, 42–43, 46–49, 155, 262, 332, 338, 344, 366
Ellis Island investigated by, 77–85, 88, 105
German-Americans investigated by, 309–10
immigration quotas set by, 333, 341 immigration reform in, 411
literacy tests and, 105, 182, 230 McCarran bill in, 360–61
World War I and, 293, 302
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; immigration law; Senate, U.S. Connecticut, 115, 134
Constitution, U.S., 42, 105, 312
Coolidge, Calvin, 337, 343
Corrigan, Michael, 109, 117, 135–36 Corsi, Edward (Edoardo), 264, 347–48, 349, 381, 384
Corsi, Giuseppe Garibaldi, 347–48 Cowen, Philip, 177–78
Coxe, A. Cleveland, 41
craniometry, 242–43
Craven, Earl of, 260, 261, 262
Crawford, Hermine, 281, 284
criminals, 35, 42, 48, 84, 92–93, 94, 112, 119–20, 127, 152, 154, 186, 195, 221, 230, 246, 298–99, 413
Croatia, 104, 113–14, 153, 178, 200 Cross, Judson, 67–68
Crystal City, Tex., 357, 358
Cuomo, Mario, 398–99
Curley, John Michael, 95
Curran, Henry H., 337–38, 341, 344 Czech Liaison Section, 364
Czechoslovakia, 362, 364, 369
Czolgosz, Leon, 127, 146
Czurylo family, 233–34
Dann, Leo, 73
Darrow, Clarence, 147, 263
Darwin, Charles, 8
Davenport, Charles, 243–44
Davis, James J., 343
Decatur, 21
Declaration of Independence, 100, 136,
406
Del Favero, Giulia, 264–65
De Marco, Guiseppe, 94
Democratic Party, U.S., 32, 44, 94, 109,
134, 162
“Deportation: Its Meaning and
Menace,” 321–22
depression of 1893, 91, 92, 109, 112–13 de Sabata, Victor, 362
Deutschberger, Leopold, 155, 160 de Wal, Martin, 314–15
Dillingham, William, 229, 332
Dillingham Commission, 231, 281–82,
283, 301
disease, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 35, 36, 38, 52, 84,
89–90, 173, 185, 413
see also specific diseases
di Simona, Carmina, 120–21
Dix, Dorothea, 95
Dobler, Roman, 107, 123, 127
Dougherty, James, 292
Douglass, Frederick, 21, 32 Du Bois, W. E. B., 345 Duck, Jacob, 210
Dukakis, Michael, 399 Dyre Island, 26
Earl, Charles, 208
Edson, Cyrus, 73–76, 81, 83
Edwards, Jonathan, 136
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 373, 375, 380 Eisler, Gerhard, 360
Ekiu, Nishimura, 61–62
elections, U.S.:
of 1888, 63
of 1892, 78, 91
of 1900, 119
of 1904, 146, 161, 162
of 1908, 183
of 1912, 230, 307
Eliot, Charles, 175, 182
Eliot, Christopher, 94
Elkus, Abram, 199, 201
Ellis, Samuel, 26
Ellis Island:
abuse of immigrants at, 117, 139, 140, 167
births at, 90, 169, 204
Boarding Division at, 116
boards of special inquiry at, 85, 88–89, 90, 104, 130, 147, 151, 178, 196, 199, 201, 208–9
books and pamphlets written at, 321–22, 369–70
bribes at, 109–10, 116–17
Campbell-Rodgers report on, 116–19, 135, 140
classification of immigrants at, 199–201
concessions at, 141–42, 304
congressional investigation of, 77–85, 105
construction at, 50, 63, 78, 112 corruption at, 116–19, 121, 123, 133–34, 139, 140, 141–42, 167, 192 deaths at, 90, 169
Democratic investigation of, 162 as distinct from American soil, 203–4 doctors at, 6, 7, 60, 90, 141, 158, 182, 187, 205–6, 207, 225, 241–42, 249–59, 271
eye exams at, 158
fire at, 107–8, 109, 120
first day of, 57–58, 59
food at, 141–42, 192, 304, 364
geological formation of, 24–25
as Gibbet Island, 14, 19, 20–23 Great Hall in, 298, 356,