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What should we do to break America’s “deafening silence” over the Holo-caust? Demanding that America do everything it could to rescue people destined for the death camps, Jewish

Catholic group seeking to settle in a fiercely Protestant society, the Irish became victims of nativist hostility. They came about the same time as the Chinese, but they had a distinct advantage: the Naturalization Law of 1790 had reserved citizenship for “whites” only. Consequently, the Irish became citizens, and, as vot-ers, they pursued an “ethnic” […]