Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such civic activities as registering to vote and performing jury duties. In the Senate, however, the bill underwent almost alchemistic changes. All but assured of final passage this week in the upper chamber, the measure could become a legislative landmark in the Negro's progress toward genuinely equal citizenship...
...Thus last week, in a final, frantic stampede, 6,200 of Kenya's Asians descended on London before Britain finally slammed the gate on one of its major sources of colored immigrants. Until then, any of the more than 125,000 Asians in Kenya who opted for British citizenship when the colony became independent in 1963 were free to enter Britain whenever they wished...
...both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will give their joint population of 150,000 a common citizenship, flag, defense force and foreign policy...
...majority of Britain's 1,000,000 Commonwealth immigrants entered the country legally. Half the members of East Africa's 400,000-strong Asian community, for example, are entitled to British citizenship. Since Kenya has started discriminating against its Asian population, giving their jobs to Africans and boycotting their shops, Asians are fleeing to Britain at a rate nearing 3,000 a month. Immigrants from other Commonwealth countries came under the 1962 Immigrants Act, which introduced a system of work permits and restricted the annual total of worker immigrants...
...could tell what was wrong." At 26, with a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Berkeley, he became a Harvard instructor, taking U.S. citizenship soon afterwards...