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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson cited work by History Professor Ousmane Power-Greene in her concurring opinion<\/a> in Trump v. Barbera, which addressed birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, ruling that the 14th Amendment guarantees automatic citizenship to virtually everyone born on U.S. soil. The decision invalidated President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born to foreign parents who are unlawfully in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson, however, used her concurrence to go far beyond that and offer a new understanding of the origins of the 14th Amendment\u2019s guarantee of birthright citizenship and its promise of equal treatment. She did so while emphasizing the singular contributions of Black Americans to that endeavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson referenced Power-Greene\u2019s 2014 book, \u201cAgainst Wind and Tide: The African-American Struggle Against the Colonial Movement,\u201d in her description of the treatment of freed Black people immediately after the Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAgainst Wind and Tide\u201d tells the story of African Americans\u2019 battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention of returning free Black people to its colony, Liberia. Although ACS members considered free Black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black leaders rejected the ACS, fearing that the organization sought forced removal. These anticolonizationists did not believe Liberia would ever be a true \u201cblack American homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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