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  title info:
    title: Emanuel Celler
    sub title: immigration and civil rights champion
  name:
    name part: Dawkins, Wayne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 217 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Congressman Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was a New York City congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973. Celler's almost fifty-year career was highlighted by his long fight to eliminate national origin quotas as a basis for immigration restrictions and his battles for civil rights legislation. In Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion, author Wayne Dawkins introduces new readers to a figure integral to our contemporary political system. Celler's own immigrant background framed his lifelong opposition to immigration restrictions and his corresponding support for reducing barriers for immigrant entry into the United States. After decades of struggle, he proposed and steered through the House the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which eliminated national origins as a consideration for immigration, profoundly shaping modern America. Celler was also a consistent advocate for civil rights. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 1949 to 1973 (except for a break from 1953 to 1955), Celler was involved in drafting and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. During his career he was also deeply involved in landmark antitrust legislation, the establishment of US ties with the state of Israel and the Gun Control Act of 1968, and was the author of three constitutional amendments, including the 25th that established presidential succession. Dawkins profiles a complex politician who shaped the central tenets of Democratic Party liberalism for much of the twentieth century and whose work remains central to the nation, and our political debates, today.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Early life, 1888-1906 -- Chapter 2: Columbia University, young lawyer, 1906-1921 -- Chapter 3: Elected to Congress, 1922-1923 -- Chapter 4: Passion, emotion, fear, and hate, 1924-1927 -- Chapter 5: Celler asserts self, chips at immigration, 1930s -- Chapter 6: World War II, FDR, and Jewish refugees -- Chapter 7: Post-World War II, Truman, and the state of Israel -- Chapter 8: Antitrust, cold war, incremental immigration -- Chapter 9: You never leave Brooklyn, early 1950s -- Chapter 10: Suez-cide and civil rights, 1950s -- Chapter 11: Celler and the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- Chapter 12: Hart-Celler immigration reform, 1965 -- Chapter 13: Voting Rights Act, 1965 -- Chapter 14: Congressional bulldog, 1967-1971 -- Chapter 15: Old-World liberal Celler Is upset, 1972-1973 -- Chapter 16: Post-Congressional life, 1973-1981 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Wayne Dawkins.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Celler, Emanuel
      name part: 1888-1981
  subject:
    topic: Jewish legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Politicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration law
    geographic: United States
  classification: E748.C4 D39 2020
  classification: 328.73/092 B
  identifier: 9781496805355
  identifier: 1496805356
  identifier: 9781496829870
  identifier: 1496829875
  identifier: 9781496829887
  identifier: 9781496829894
  identifier: 9781496829900
  identifier: 9781496829863
  identifier: 2020017652
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200716
    record change date: 20210125091257.0
    record identifier: in00004353700