· Washington, D.C.
Cable Act Signed
injustice
The law let most American women keep their citizenship after marrying a foreigner, but stripped citizenship from any woman who married an 'alien ineligible to citizenship'-a category that targeted Asian men.
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Sources
- immigrationhistory.org immigrationhistory.org/item/cable-act
- encyclopedia.densho.org encyclopedia.densho.org/Cable_Act