In the early 1900s, diversity was not a word that was tossed around in the newspapers – or anywhere during that period. White men dominated most aspects of America. And not just white men, but white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. Women would not even get to vote until the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

The Great Arrival in the United States spanned from 1880 to 1920, as more than four million Italian immigrants poured into Ellis Island to find work. In 1924, the government scaled back and limited immigration to 2% of a nationality’s existing residents in America.