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I said on Saturday that I had letters from various parts of the country attesting that there are colored aliens shut out from equal rights by that word “white” in our Naturalization Laws.
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Sumner highlights the exclusion of colored aliens from equal rights due to discriminatory language in Naturalization Laws.
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