EPISODE · Feb 3, 2025 · 25 MIN
US concept of birthright largely shaped by free Black citizens in Baltimore
from On The Record · host WYPR 88.1 FM
President Trump’s push to end “birthright citizenship” would rewrite what the Fourteenth amendment has meant since 1868. Scholar Martha S. Jones traces how free Blacks in Baltimore shaped and asserted the idea of birthright citizens before the Civil War. (Orig. broadcast, July, 2018)
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