workingclasshistory:On this day, 19 February 1923, the US Supreme Court decided unanimously to bar S
workingclasshistory:On this day, 19 February 1923, the US Supreme Court decided unanimously to bar South Asians from becoming American citizens and to denaturalize those who had already done so. Their decision was on the basis that South Asians (referred to often erroneously as “Hindus” at time by the press) and American whites of European descent did not have common racial ancestry (whatever the hell that means). South Asians did not regain the right to become citizens until 1946. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1353847661467047/?type=3 -- source link