Though initially a source of pride, many blacks feared the use of African as an identity would be a hindrance to their fight for full citizenship in the US.

The next year, Oona Chaplin renounced her US citizenship and became a British citizen.

He also gained the freedom of Madame Adrienne Lafayette and issued her and her family American passports ( they had been granted citizenship by the US government for contributions during the Revolution.

* 1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

Purchasers who make a minimum investment of US $ 350, 000 are entitled to apply for citizenship of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Thus his earliest publications carried the name Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno ; upon his application for US citizenship, his name was modified to Theodor W. Adorno.

Grant was the first US President to be elected after the nation had outlawed slavery and given citizenship to former African-American slaves by US constitutional amendments.

UPEACE / US projects include DCPEACE, an initiative to empower teachers, youth, and families with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively serve as peacebuilders in their communities and PeaceRooms, a program that connect classrooms of middle school students from Costa Rica and Washington D. C. through the use of innovative virtual networking technology for the purpose of developing core concepts of global citizenship and peace education. UPEACE / US website

The 1922 Cable Act specified that women marrying aliens ineligible for naturalization lose their US citizenship.

The US required the 1866 Treaty to provide for the emancipation of all Cherokee slaves, and full citizenship to all Cherokee freedmen and all free African Americans who chose to continue to reside within tribal lands, so that they " shall have all the rights of native Cherokees.

US Citizenship was now granted unconditionally upon receipt of land allotment ( did not need to move off the reservation to receive citizenship ).

Garbo signing her US citizenship papers, in 1950

Jameson shows the Captain a document claiming that he and Eckert have renounced their US citizenship and are therefore not under the Captain's authority.

She refused their offers and applied for US citizenship in 1937.

* Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political rights

These are typically either Norwegians who moved to the States, obtained US Citizenship and later moved back to Norway, or the descendants of Norwegians who themselves have never acquired Norwegian citizenship.

In 1943, Linkletter pleaded guilty to falsely claiming US citizenship ; he was fined $ 500 and permitted to apply for citizenship.

Native Americans in the United States on reservations gained US citizenship with the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, and were encouraged to become integrated in the society through educational programs.

Prior to returning to Ireland in 1997, Scallon applied for US citizenship, requiring her to swear an oath renouncing allegiance to any other state.

In 1999, having secured US citizenship and standing again as an independent, Scallon won a seat in the European Parliament, representing the Connacht – Ulster European Parliament constituency.

On 7 October, it was revealed that Scallon had dual US and Irish citizenship, but she denied hiding this from the public, saying that her US citizenship, which involved her taking an oath renouncing allegiance to Ireland, was not an issue then or now and she had no reason to hide it.

Signed in 1972, it was in force for the next 30 years until the US unilaterally withdrew from it in June 2002.

As relations between the US and USSR warmed in the later years of the 1960s, the US first proposed an ABM treaty in 1967.

Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 held back growth in these sectors in 2001-03.

In recent years, the Brazilian Development Bank ( BNDES ) has provided US $ 5 billion worth of loans to countries in the region.

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).

William Shawcross, however, wrote that the US bombing and ground incursion plunged Cambodia into the chaos Sihanouk had worked for years to avoid.

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia ; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament.

In recent years city officials have explored ways to revitalize the city and return Columbus to the days when Miller's architectural innovation made it one of the most envied cities in the US.

Barnard described the two years he spent in the US as " the most fascinating time in my life.

In the space of 2 years ( 2002-2004 ) US.

In the past few years, a practice called yarn bombing, or the use of knitted or crocheted cloth to modify and beautify one's ( usually outdoor ) surroundings, emerged in the US and spread worldwide.

In 1988, the US National Research Council concluded that it "... finds no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years, for the existence of parapsychological phenomena.

Midway through his college studies at Oregon State University ( then called Oregon State College ), near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Navy, serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines.

In the years that followed, Eisenhower increased the number of US military advisors in South Vietnam to 900 men.

On 30 December 1966, the US and the UK executed an agreement through an Exchange of Notes which permit the US to use the BIOT for defense purposes for 50 years ( through December 2016 ), followed by a 20-year optional extension ( to 2036 ) to which both parties must agree by December 2014.

In recent years, relations between India and the US have improved dramatically.

Fannie Mae Clackum was the first service member to successfully appeal such a discharge, winning eight years of back pay from the US Court of Claims in 1960.

Massive foreign borrowing, initiated during the years of the second military regime and continued under Roldós, resulted in a foreign debt that by 1983 was nearly US $ 7 billion.

In addition he was forced into US bankruptcy court three times in the next 8 years.

This US federal law also gave students 18 years old or older, or students of any age if enrolled in any post-secondary educational institution, the right of privacy regarding grades, enrollment, and even billing information, unless the school has specific permission from the student to share that specific type of information with the parent.