Word: refugeesâ
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...perhaps the incalculable enrichment of America by those refugees???by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
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