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Mary Singh Rai and her mother Ernestine Singh
View of Mary Singh Rai and her mother Ernestine Singh in ca. 1930's; photograph was taken in Arizona before they moved to Yuba City (Calif.)

Here's Letter To The World From Suicide
Article titled "Here's Letter To The World From Suicide" from the March 17, 1928 edition of the San Francisco Examiner. The article reports on the suicide of Vaishno Das Bagai, and reprints the letter he left for newspapers.

Photograph of Abnashi Ram on a Boardwalk
Inscription on the back of photograph reads: “Mr. Ram’s earliest photo.”

Photograph of Ram Bagai at Yerba Buena School
Ram Bagai (second from left, top row) with schoolmates at Yerba Buena School, about 1924.

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.

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