Ellis Island

Ellis Island Ellis Island was the major US Immigration hub in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Between the years of 1892 and 1954 some 12 million were processed at Ellis Island . To many, Ellis Island represented the gateway to opportunity and a new and prosperous life by way of the American dream. However to the 25 that were turned away from Ellis Island and denied entrance into the U.S., Ellis Island represented cold shutting doors of …

…there would have never been a common ground on which all of them could connect and relate. That is what Ellis Island provided, a commonplace for all those who hoped of making a new life in America. A place for them to be to be either accepted or denied, race did not matter, social class did not matter, at Ellis Island everyone was an Immigrant, with the same goal of Making America their new home.