September 22, 1922

injustice

Cable Act Signed

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.

Sources

  1. immigrationhistory.org immigrationhistory.org/item/cable-act
  2. encyclopedia.densho.org encyclopedia.densho.org/Cable_Act