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 ...

It was established in the U.S. by the Fourteenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1868. The Naturalization Act of 1790 granted ...

Massachusetts elected officials led by Honorable Malo Brown, City Councilor, Springfield City, Massachusetts, will call on his colleagues to join him in casting a historic vote to stand in solidarity ...

The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied to only “free white persons,” and the Supreme Court’s reviled decision in Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857 affirmed that citizenship could not be granted ...

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 ...

“We will firmly oppose any efforts to undermine these fundamental rights.” “From the 1790 Naturalization Act to the infamous Dred Scott decision, U.S. citizenship has long been shaped to uphold racial ...

In 1790, lawmakers created the Naturalization Act that allowed people to become citizens if they lived in the United States for two years and were free, white, in good moral standing and ...

A major colonial grievance against King George III justifying the American Revolution was his “obstructing the laws for naturalization ... the Alien Friends Act of 1798 empowering the president ...

Springfield City Council has unanimously cast a vote in solidarity with Liberians living in the United States while urging the Trump administration to halt mass deportations and formally acknowledge ...