The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Cellar Act, abolished the system of national-origin quotas.

Immigration doubled between 1965 and 1970, and again between 1970 and 1990.

The Immigration Act of 1965 finally allowed Asians and all persons from all nations be given somewhat equal access to immigration and naturalization.

Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration Act of 1965 at Liberty Island as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy | Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and others look on.

Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965, which substantially changed U. S. immigration policy toward non-Europeans.

" Immigration doubled between 1965 and 1970, and doubled again between 1970 and 1990.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which was later amended in 1965 to include policy for refugees on a case by case basis, was the first Act that the consolidated U. S. immigration policy into one body of text.

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

The Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 abolished the national-origin quotas in immigration law.

In the years after the United States enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, allowing many more immigrants from Asia into the country, the population of Chinatown exploded.

Immigration reform in 1965 opened the door to a huge influx of Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong, and Cantonese became the dominant tongue.

Along with Ted Kennedy, he was one of the original co-sponsors of the Immigration Act of 1965.

Since the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a massive increase in immigration from Latin America and Asia, intermarriage between white and non-white Americans has been increasing.

In 1907, the " Gentlemen's Agreement " between the governments of Japan and the U. S. ended immigration of Japanese workers ( i. e., men ), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U. S. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned the immigration of all but a token few Japanese, until the Immigration Act of 1965, there was very little further Japanese immigration.

Over the years since, the United States has codified this obligation in the provisions of Section 289 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and as amended in 1965.

With the ensuing Great Depression, and despite worsening conditions for European Jews, with the rise of Nazi Germany, these quotas remained in place with minor alterations until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

After the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the United States dramatically increased immigration from the Indian subcontinent.

With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Koreans became one of the fastest growing Asian groups in the United States, surpassed only by Filipinos.

After the national origins system was relaxed and repealed by Immigration Acts in 1952 and 1965, many Taiwanese people came to the United States, forming the first wave of Taiwanese immigration.

Many are second-generation ( parents who are naturalized U. S. citizens ) born after the U. S. Immigration Act of 1965 were free from limits on immigration from East Asia.

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

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Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

They were amended when, in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, East Barnet Urban District and Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area was transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Barnet.

* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

To allay their fears, Nehru enacted the Official Languages Act in 1963 to ensure the continuing use of English beyond 1965.

* 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U. S. Congress " We shall overcome " while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

* 1965 – The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

In 1965, the London Government Act 1963 came into force merging the boroughs of Malden & Coombe and Surbiton with Kingston upon Thames to form the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card ; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.

A critical press continues to operate, although the government has intervened for alleged inaccurate reporting, using the 1965 Public Order Act which criminalizes libel.

However, this provision was never enforced while the southern states continued to use various pretexts to prevent many blacks from voting right up until the passage of Voting Rights Act in 1965.

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

It achieved the moral force and support to gain passage of national legislation with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* 1965 – National Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Over the years, Widdecombe has expressed her support for a reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished in the UK in 1965.

Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London ( which by now only covered part of the London conurbation ) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council ( GLC ) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.

After 1965 most parts of the preserved old town with its precious town houses were demolished, the historical layout was abolished, and the city was rebuilt in modern forms.

** Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, formed in 1900 and abolished in 1965

In 1965, the regressive allowance for national insurance contributions was abolished and the single personal allowance, marriage allowance and wife ’ s earned income relief were increased.

The People's Republic of China, founded in 1949, abolished Xikang province of the Republic of China and merged western part of that province into Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 while the rest of Xikang was made Sichuan province in 1955.

In 1965, London County Council was abolished and replaced by Greater London Council, with an expanded administrative area that took in the metropolitan parts of the Home Counties.

In 1965 the metropolitan borough was abolished and its former area became the southern part of the London Borough of Southwark in Greater London.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the Erith Municipal Borough was abolished and its area transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Bexley.

The borough was abolished in 1965 and absorbed into the borough of Islington.

In 1965 the metropolitan borough was abolished and its area merged with that of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn and the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras to form the modern-day London Borough of Camden.

Harlington was in Middlesex, until the county was abolished in 1965.

* 1965: Middlesex county was abolished.

Since the Municipal Borough of Hornsey was abolished in 1965, the name may refer either to the N8 postal district which includes Crouch End and part of Harringay, or to an area centred around Hornsey High Street, at the eastern end of which is the churchyard and tower of the former parish church which used to be the administrative centre of Hornsey ( parish ).

In 1965, the Municipal Borough of Leyton was abolished and was combined with that of Walthamstow and Chingford to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest, within the new county of Greater London.

In 1965 the urban district was abolished and the area was transferred from Kent to Greater London, to form part of the London Borough of Bromley.

The urban district was abolished in 1965 and merged with others to became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in Greater London.

The urban district was abolished in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963, and its former area merged with that of other districts to form the London Borough of Bromley.

The district became the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in 1900 which was abolished in 1965.

In 1965 the parish and urban district were abolished.

Historically, Sipson was in the county of Middlesex, which was abolished as a local government entity when Greater London was created in 1965.

The Municipal Borough of Southgate was abolished in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963 and its area was combined with that of the Municipal Borough of Enfield and the Municipal Borough of Edmonton to form the present-day London Borough of Enfield.