Timeline: Asian Americans and the Right to Vote

From Chinese-American railroad workers to Japanese-American World War II vets, Americans of Asian descent have fought and continue to fight for the right to vote and be counted. Below is timeline of Asian Americans and voting:
1776 White men with property have the right to vote but Catholics, Jews, Quakers and others are barred from voting.
1790 The Naturalization Act bars Asian Americans from becoming citizens.
1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 grants citizenship, but not the right to vote, to all native-born Americans.
1882 Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act denying citizenship and voting rights to Chinese Americans.
1920 The Nineteenth Amendment, adopted by Congress on June 4, 1919, is finally ratified by the states and becomes national law, giving women the right to vote.
1922 In Takao Ozawa v. United States the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Naturalization Act of 1790, which means that aliens are ineligible for citizenship.
1923 The U.S. Supreme Court closes the door to Asian citizenship in Bhagat Singh Thind v. The United States, ruling that Asian Indian immigrants are not "white" and therefore ineligible for citizenship, thus effectively depriving them of the right to vote.
1943 In a major civil rights victory, the Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed, giving Chinese immigrants the right to citizenship and the right to vote.
1946 Filipinos and Asian Indians are granted the right to become U.S. citizens.
1952 The McCarran-Walter Act gives first generation Japanese Americans the right to become citizens.
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law.
The Voting Rights Act is enacted as a permanent federal statute prohibiting any election practice that denies the right to vote on account of race.
2001 John Liu is elected to the New York City Council becoming the first Asian-American elected to a major legislative position in the city with the largest Asian-American population in the U.S.
References:
Civilrights.org, “Civil Rights: A Chronology,” civilrights.org, http://www.civilrights.org/research_center/permanent_collection/resource...
Japanese American National Museum. Teaching the Japanese American Experience: An Educator’s Tool Kit. 2004.
KLCS, “African American World Timeline,” Public Broadcasting System, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline.htm
http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0410/041005.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html
http://www.votingrights.org/timeline/?year=2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Asian_American
http://www.asian-nation.org/2004-elections.shtml
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