Well so much for the argument from from the political right that the United States was not founded on racism. And let's include sexism. A white man can marry anyone and it's OK. If a white woman marries anyone other than a white man, she is immediately caste out.
On this day in 1915, SCOTUS upheld a law that stripped American women of their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. U.S. men marrying foreign women were permitted to keep their citizenship. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/06 …
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The Expatriation Act of 1907. These woman could apply for citizenship if their husband was naturalized, they divorced, or she was widowed. UNLESS her husband was an "undesirable" race (Asian) who was barred completely from applying for US citizenship.
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Kinda like my white grandmother being listed as Black in the census because she married my black grandfather
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Today, in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified!
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Wow! I had never heard of this.
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This filled a gap in my knowledge. Thank you for the work you are doing to put this history in front of our eyes daily.
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