Martin Luther Kingby businessmen. by laborers. by church leaders. by all Americansand said. "Lets finally get serious and free ourselves from discrimination." We all remember what happened with the Japanese internment. one of the darkest periods in American history at the beginning of World War II. And still this country went ahead with that dastardly act. So in the 1960s. we began to make progress on the issues of race. with the 1964 and 1965 act. Many of the arguments I just heard on the floor of the U.S. Senate were made during that particular debate. Then in 1965. we freed ourselves from a nationalorigin quota system in immigration. we freed ourselves from the Asian Pacific triangle that was left over from the early part of the 1900s. called the yellow peril. We made progress. We made progress on race.
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