At a time when Indian were not eligible for a US citizenship, Bhicaji Balsara, a textile merchant from Bombay (now Mumbai), fought and won a lengthy legal battle against racist citizenship laws, and ...
The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied to only “free white persons,” but the 14th Amendment that ended slavery in the country also established citizenship for freed Black Americans, as well as “all ...
The Naturalization Act of 1790 granted citizenship to "free white persons" who had lived in the U.S. for at least two years and had "good character." After the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment ...