Suzanne Thornton organizes an event in which three HGP members share meaningful stories of significant events in their lives. Today we hear from Dave Gray, Margie Adams, and Jules Elias.
From Citizens to Enemy Aliens
Presentation by Kimberly Jensen. The full title is “From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: Oregon Women, Marriage and the Surveillance State during the First World War.” Federal legislation in effect from 1907 to 1922 required women who were U.S. citizens and who married men of other nations to forfeit their U.S. citizenship and take on the status of their husbands. During the First World War, some 400 Oregon women became "enemy aliens" as a result of their marriage to German men in the state. Kept under surveillance by state officials, many of the women resisted actions against them and definitions of themselves as enemy aliens. Ms. Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.
Presenter :
Kimberly Jensen
Date:
Sunday, November 23, 2014