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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that declared Indigenous persons born within the United States are US citizens. Although the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that any person born in the United States is a citizen, there is an exception for ...
2024 marks 100 years since the Indian Citizenship Act was signed ... Over 65 years later, The Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924.
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr. [1] / ˈ k uː l ɪ dʒ / KOOL-ij; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts , he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923 under President Warren G. Harding , and as the 48th ...
The one-sentence Indian Citizenship Act swept away those requirements in an attempt to grant citizenship to all Native Americans. At the same time, Congress deferred to state governments on who ...
When it was finally enacted in 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act was hardly a revolution: about two-thirds of Natives were already citizens due to narrower federal or state laws. The Act explicitly ...
June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
It was given by Calvin Coolidge, the 30th United States President, to the 70th United States Congress. He said, "For many years the Federal Government has been building a system of dikes along the Mississippi River for protection against high water. During the past season the lower States were overcome by a most disastrous flood.
This week, we’re celebrating an important milestone in that struggle: the 100 th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, which was approved by Congress in 1924. The legislation provided dual ...