AANHPI History Calendar

· Washington, D.C. / Hawaii

Rice v. Cayetano Decided

injustice

The Supreme Court (7-2) struck down Hawaii's practice of limiting Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee elections to Native Hawaiian voters, ruling it an unconstitutional racial classification under the Fifteenth Amendment.

Communities
  • Native Hawaiian
Topics
  • sovereignty
  • voting
Event type
  • court case

Sources

Also on February 23

resistance

Justice Department Ends the China Initiative

The DOJ ended its 'China Initiative' after years of criticism that the program racially profiled Chinese American and immigrant scientists and chilled US research. (Shares Feb 23 with Rice v. Cayetano.)