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Who gets to be an American citizen?
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:15:26
Publish Date: 2026-04-07 07:05:00
Description: The 14th Amendment guaranteed equal citizenship after the Civil War, but who exactly counted as a citizen? Today on the show, the story of Wong Kim Ark, a man born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, whose Supreme Court case defined birthright citizenship more than a century ago.

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