07-17-2015, 10:19 AM
(07-17-2015, 10:13 AM)michaelsean Wrote: i always thought it was assumed that if you were born here you were a citizen. I didn't know that wasn't a thing until the 14th amendment. However, that shouldn't change the status of the parents.
Yeah, that was something they didn't want happening at first, and not just for the black population. The children of immigrant workers from all over (Chinese, Irish, etc.) were also kept out of the citizenry until then, which actually hurt their integration into society.
