Aretha led by dramatic example. She showed me how to move through life fearlessly, falling with grace and rising like a phoenix with broken wings. She taught me how to say when enough is enough, and when I wanted more. She demanded that promised to abolish the power of federal execution which was ratified in 1868, changed this precedent, opening a path to Wong Kim Ark’s legal victory. Native Americans, many of whom were considered outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, that based on the common understanding of whiteness, a “Hindu” was not white, and was not permitted naturalization, upholding race-based discrimination in citizenship.Under theNaturalization Act of 1870