Announcement for Syud Hossain's Lecture Tour
Redpath Bureau flyer advertising details for Syud Hossain’s lecture tour. The flyer describes Hossain as a "distinguished world affairs interpreter, Traveler, and Observer; an editor on three continents; Lecturer on the History of Civilization at the University of Southern California, Brilliant author, scholar, speaker.
Letter to Abnashi Ram
Letter to Abnashi Ram from Anup Singh Dhillon, asking for funds to fight Singh’s pending deportation from the US. Also includes a clipping of Dr. Singh Dhillon’s obituary after his 1969 death in a car crash in Cairo.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Anup Singh
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Anup Singh, discussing the newly elected British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and how he may be no different from Churchill on the matter of India’s independence. The letter also covers Ram’s revolutionary plans for India’s future and mentions Dr. Syud Hossain as a key figure in these plans.
Letter of Reference by S.L. Joshi for Godha Ram Channon
Letter dated August 29, 1939 from Dr. S.L. Joshi, Carleton College, to unknown recipient in regards to Mr. Godha Ram Channon. The letter is a letter of recommendation of Godha Ram Channon as a businessman.
S.505
A bill dated February 8, 1945 introduced by Mr. Capper to authorize the naturalization and the admission, under quota, of Indians and descendants of Indians into the United States. This bill would amend Section 303 of the Nationality Act of 1940.
Letter from J.J. Singh to Senator Tom Stewart
Letter dated September 12, 1944 from J.J. Singh, President of India League of America, to Senator Tom Stewart, Chairman of the Senate Immigration Sub-Committee. Singh requested to testify in front of the committee during their hearings on September 13, 1944 in regards to Bill S. 1595, which if passed would permit Indian nationals to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
India: A Public Meeting
A newspaper clipping of a bulletin for a free public meeting to be held on May 4, 1944 to support legislation authorizing U.S. immigration and naturalization of Nationals of India. Speakers at the meeting included Clare Booth Luce, William Langer, Emanuel Celler, and Leland Stowe.
India: A Public Meeting
Bulletin for a free public meeting on April 13, 1944 in favor of the pending legislation authorizing immigration and naturalization of Nationals of India. Speakers include: Emanuel Celler, co-author of pending legislation, Fannie Hurst, Dr. Frank Kingdon, Rev Elmore M. McKee, and Roger N. Baldwin.
Letter from Taraknath Das to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee
Letter dated September 12, 1944 from Taraknath Das, Ph.D., Department of History at the College of the City of New York, to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee. Das writes in support of the naturalization of Indians who reside in the US. Das wrote that he obtained American citizenship in 1914 and believes the current American immigration laws are discriminatory.
"Insult To India"
Washington News article published on May 4, 1944 detailing reasons for the support of the ‘Luce-Celler Bill’, which would permit the naturalization of Indian nationals in the U.S on a quota basis. The article states the bill should be supported as an immediate war time measure to counter Japanese propaganda as well as for post-war economic and foreign trade purposes.
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