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1/ History meets politics. Michelle Steel’s .@RepSteel vote against #RespectforMarriage means she does not know California or American history.
100 years ago, her marriage was illegal in her own California district. 🧵 #history #CivilRights
100 years ago, her marriage was illegal in her own California district. 🧵 #history #CivilRights
2/ California banned interracial marriage 1850-1948. In 1922, Congress passed the Cable Act, which removed citizenship of any U.S. *woman* who married "an alien ineligible for citizenship." They meant Asians. This targeted Asian immigrants who were barred from US citizenship.
I wrote about an illegal marriage in 1909 in what is currently is Steel’s congressional district, between a white woman and a Japanese American man. It’s connected to an endangered National Treasure historic place she's refused to help save.
Read: historicwintersburg.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-ma…
Read: historicwintersburg.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-ma…
