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Rebecca Brenner Graham

“administration has determined how to implement immigration legislation. For President Herbert Hoover’s administration from 1929 through 1933, implementing the Immigration Act of 1924 meant rounding up immigrants—disproportionately Mexican people—for deportation. During the Hoover administration, the Labor Department’s “Section 24” officers “indiscriminately raided places where newcomers assembled.” Section 24”

Rebecca Brenner Graham, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
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Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany by Rebecca Brenner Graham
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