[150] This was accomplished by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Fifteenth Amendment, proclaimed in 1870, already prohibited exclusion on the ground of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
[151] This aspect of the matter is admirably discussed by Miss S. P. Breckenridge in New Homes for Old, Chapter VI, on “Care of the Children,” especially pp. 153 et seq., Americanization Studies, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1921.
[152] See chap. ix, [p. 255] et seq.
[153] Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization, 1919, p. 16.
[154] Ibid., 1918, p. 28.
[155] Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization, 1918, p. 28.
[156] Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization, 1916, p. 46.
[157] Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization, 1919, p. 73.
[158] Quoted in “The Immigrant Woman and the Vote,” by Vira Boardman Whitehouse, in The Immigrants in America Review, September, 1915.
[159] Ibid.