Nonwhite Americans gained legal citizenship rights only in 1964

Evidence

Today it is hard to believe, but it was not until the passage of civil right legislation in 1964 that nonwhites were able to defend their liberties by appealing to the laws of the nation as American citizens. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 290

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• CANDY: A punchy, surprising-at-first-glance fact: full citizenship rights for nonwhites only arrived in 1964. Good elevator-conversation material.