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Letter from Raphael B. Malsin to Senator Richard B. Russell
Letter dated April 27, 1944 from Raphael B. Malsin, President of Lane Bryant, Inc. to Senator Richard B. Russell, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration. Malsin urged Russell to support Bill S. 1595, which if passed, would permit the naturalization of Indian nationals in the United States.. Malsin cited fairness and democratic principles as reasons to support the bill.

Letter from Julius Hochman to Senator Richard B. Russell
Letter dated May 23, 1944 from Julius Hochman, General Manager of the Joint Board of the Dress and Waistmakers’ Union of Greater New York, to Senator Richard B. Russell, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration. Hochman wrote in support of Bill S. 1595, which if passed, would permit the naturalization of Indian nationals in the United States.

Letter from Krishnalal Shridharani to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee
This letter dated September 14, 1944 from Krishnalal Shridharani to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee is part of the Senate Committee on Immigration’s records regarding S.1595. Shridharani mentions his work with the National Committee for India’s Freedom and thanks Senator Langor for proposing S. 1595.

The New India (December 1944)
This copy of the India Welfare League, Inc. publication, The New India, is part of the Senate Committee on Immigration's records regarding S. 1595, a bill to permit all people from India residing in the United States to be naturalized.

Pre-opening publicity for "Gyandev of India"
Pre-opening publicity clippings for the 1943 film Gyandev of India from the New York Times and New York Post, along with an advertisement for the film. Ram Bagai imported the movie to New York, where it became the first all-sound motion picture to be shown in the U.S.

A message to the American Negro from Rabindranath Tagore, ca. July 1929
Reproducing in full, and commenting upon, the statement by the Indian poet calling for "race consciousness" and relaying a universal message in defiance of "the artificial limitations of race."

Ajudhia Persaud
There's a thwarted love story implied in the entry records of Ajudhia Persaud, a student at McGill University in Montreal and a repeat visitor to New York to see his wife Laika.

Motee Singh's Arrival Record
Motee "Kid" Singh, a professional boxer, arrives in New York in 1931 on the steamship Munamar and is identified on the passenger manifest as an "East Indian" able to read and write English and "Hindoo." The featherweigh

Rose Su Persaud's Arrival Record
In 1924, a 23-year old widow named Rose Su Persaud arrived at Ellis Island and declared her intention to go live with her sister Agnes Premdas at the Phyllis Wheatley Hotel in Harlem, founded and run by Marcus Garvey’s Pan-Africanist United Negro Improvement Association.

Henry Sivenandan's Census Record
This U.S. Census record from 1940 provides a picture of a family from British Guiana with Indo-Caribbean last names identified as "Negro." Henry Sivenandan, an elevator operator in a loft building, and his wife Agnes, who worked in a dress factory, lived in Harlem with their toddler Saundra and Agnes' widowed older sister, Rose Persad, who worked as a seamstress in a dress factory.

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