Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630384045

The! question we are discussing is within very small bounds.. It is this. Shall an immigrant who can pass the moral test. the physical test. and the financial test be denied admission solely because he i unable to read and write. even though he can affirmatively show that he has been driven from his own country by persecution on account of his race? Thecommittee has reported a bill exempting from the literacy test those who are fleeing to escape religious persecution and those who are fleeing to escape political persecution. The sole question. we are now discussing is whether we shall enlarge the literacy exemptions so as to also include within them those who are fleeing to escape racial persecution. It is not proposed a single man can come in because of racial persecution if he be morally or physically unclean.
Keywords matched
immigrant literacy test

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES REED
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MO
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630384045
Paragraph
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