Carmen Tórtola Valencia began her grand dance in the world on her birthday on June 18, 1882, in Seville, Spain. Valencia was one of the last great dancers of the ‘belle époque’, a brief dreamy period at the start of the 20th century that ended with the brutality of World War I. A calculatedly mysterious… Continue reading Carmen Tórtola Valencia, Star Dancer
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The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed into US federal law on May 8, 1882. The Act was the first major immigration legislation based on nationality. It was designed to reduce the number of Americans of Chinese descent and to disenfranchise as many as possible through measures such as removing the right to naturalization. Chinese immigrants… Continue reading The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882