Galveston Movement, 1907–1914

The open question

Immigrants were steered away from New York to fill the countryside. Who decided where people should go?

On the record

The Galveston Movement, also known as the Galveston Plan, was a U.S. immigration assistance program operated by several Jewish organizations between 1907 and 1914. During its operation, ten thousand Jewish immigrants passed through the port of Galveston, Texas, about a third the number that immigrated to Ottoman Palestine during the same period. B'nai Israel's Rabbi Henry Cohen was the humanitarian face of the movement, meeting ships at the Galveston docks and helping guide the immigrants through the cumbersome arrival and distribution process, and on into the countryside.

Year: 1907
Kind: immigration

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