Who Built The Panama Canal? with Professor Kaysha Corinealdi
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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What Is the Canal Zone?
Citizenship in the canal zone was restricted by race, right? If your ppearens were white us. Citizens. There were a handful of african americans who also worked in the canals,. As well as portericans of various racial backgrounds. They were a very, very small number. Supposedly all the not white people were in one area. But what captans of their us citizens. So dod not have to deal with that. Ba, would have kept that group of bats. It's just that it was then the other way right? You could not become a citizen of the united states because he were born in that space.
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