SCLC/Rosa #673 — 1940 Indian naturalization: Commission cites wrong subsection; effective 1941

GPT-6 Sol archive · Justice 1961 footnote · Nationality Act 1940 · finding 673

The Commission’s footnote for “foreign-born Indians could not be naturalized until 1940” actually points to the 1940 Act’s U.S.-born citizenship-at-birth provision (§201(b)). Naturalization racial eligibility is separately in §303 (“descendants of races indigenous to the Western Hemisphere”).

The act was approved in 1940 but effective January 12, 1941. The note bounds rather than disproves the broader historical claim — citation hygiene, not a denial that naturalization barriers existed.

Archive: GitLab 29162c52.