Marching to the Rhythm of a Different DRUM
Newspaper clipping from the News India Times entitled "Marching to the Rhythm of a Different DRUM" and dated April 14, 2000. The article discusses the formation of DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) and its endorsement by many groups, including Sakhi, SALGA, and Andolan (Organizing South Asian Workers); it also includes an excerpt from DRUM's manifesto.
S. Asians Join Immigrant Amnesty March
Online article from India Abroad by Suman Guha Mozumder entitled "S. Asians Join Immigrant Amnesty March" and dated October 20, 2000. Reports on an October 14, 2000 rally in New York in favor of amnesty for undocumented immigrants, attended by approximately 30 groups under the umbrella of the South Asian Action and Advocacy Collective.
CHRI's May Day slide show
Still image of a slideshow of photos taken at the May Day march on May 1, 2000, presented by the Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants.
Rally Demands Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants
Online article from India in New York by Suman Guha Mozumder entitled "Rally Demands Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants" and dated October 20, 2000. Reports on an October 14, 2000 rally in New York in favor of amnesty for undocumented immigrants, attended by approximately 30 groups under the umbrella of the South Asian Action and Advocacy Collective.
Poem Dedicated to Per Ajie
Chitra Singh is a singer/songwriter and a nursing aide. She is the co-founder of the Rajkumari Cultural Center, an Indo-Caribbean arts and culture organization in Queens.
Text of "Per ajie," a poem by Rajkumari Singh, Pritha and Chitra's mother, in her self-published collection Days of the Sahib.
Cover of Heritage Issue 1
One of Rajkumari Singh's chidren, Gora Singh, who was trained in Indian classical dance in India, produced an event in Guyana in 1973 to commemorate the 135th anniversary of Indians landing in the colony. The program also doubled as the first issue of Heritage, a literary pamphlet/newsletter put out by the Messenger Group artistic collective.
Cover of Heritage Issue 2
The second issue of Heritage, containing new writing by Mahadai Das, Henry Muttoo, Janet Naidu and others, appeared in September 1973, six months after the first issue. This is a rare and historically significant publication.
Pages from Heritage Issue 2
These pages from the second issue of Heritage contain a pen drawing and a polemic about the 1948 massacre of sugar cane workers at the Enmore Plantation in Guyana, which fanned the embers of the movement for independence in Guyana. The pages also contain an add for the third issue of the newsletter.
Remembering Gora
Chitra Singh is a singer/songwriter and a nursing aide. She is the co-founder of the Rajkumari Cultural Center, an Indo-Caribbean arts and culture organization in Queens.
In 1998, the Queens Museum hosted a memorial for Chitra and Pritha's brother Gora Singh, a classically trained dancer and a co-founder of the Rajkumari Cultural Center.
Kokila Bahadur Jersey City Medical Center Certificate
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.