sep 22, 1922 - The Cable Act

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The Cable Act was passed to strip women of their right to marry who they wanted and remove their ability as a whole to marry non-citizens of the United States. This was done as a malicious act and targeted the women's suffrage movement since they had recently received the right to vote in 1920. It was a key moment during this chapter because it specifically targeted Asian women to not marry Asian men who weren't citizens. It was very clearly a discriminatory, restrictive law, and was removed in 1940, but women suffered for almost 2 decades from this act.

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