Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although we do not support the complete elimination of Radcliffe per se, we do advocate opening Radcliffe completely to men and making equal, joint citizenship a reality for male and female students...
...ralliers advocated the right to vote in local elections for all residents regardless of citizenship. The Council has no proposals pending on the issue, Councillor Jonathan S. Myers said yesterday...
...everyone, and scare the criminals as much as the citizenry. In his essay "A Nation of Cowards" in The Public Interest, lawyer Jeffrey Snyder argues that individual dignity depends on a willingness to fight back against crime. Owning a gun, and mastering its use, becomes a duty of citizenship; an armed society becomes a safer one. In a community like Wichita, Kansas, where drive-by shootings hit a record high this year and local legislators are debating tighter gun laws, pro-gun activists argue that instead they should make it easier for citizens to carry a concealed weapon -- the deterrent...
...wages, typically a third less than what white workers could earn. Even so, hostility forced them from many jobs as times got tough. Excluded from the mines and farms, many set up shop as laundrymen, a trade that did not exist in their homeland. They were ineligible for citizenship under a 1790 federal law that limited that privilege to whites. In 1882 Chinese workers were barred from entering the U.S. by an act of Congress that was extended indefinitely in 1902 and was not rescinded until...
...time Chinese Forty-Niners joined the California Gold Rush, Asians have tended to see America in terms of the old Cantonese name for San Francisco: Gao Gam Saan (Old Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the newcomers, coupled with openly racist citizenship and immigration laws, encouraged the impulse to get ahead financially without bothering about assimilation into the mainstream society. Politics was something to be avoided. As an old Far Eastern maxim goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down...