Letter from India Muslim League of America to Senator Richard B. Russell

DESCRIPTION
Letter from India Muslim League of America to Senator Richard B. Russell Senator (D-GA), chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration urging consideration of S.236, a bill to permit all people from India residing in the United States to be naturalized. The letter became part of the committee's records regarding S.236. Signed by League Chairman Henry Tudor Mason, the letter references the India Welfare League, Inc., whose president Mubarek Ali Khan also served as secretary of the India Muslim League of America.

THEMES
Citizenship & Voting

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: August 23, 1945
Subject(s): Richard B. Russell, Mubarek Ali Khan, India Welfare League, Inc., Luce-Cellar Act of 1946
Type: Correspondence
Language: English
Creator: India Muslim League of America, Henry Tudor Mason
Location: 321 W. 56th Street, New York, New York

PROVENANCE
Holding Institution: National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
Collection: U.S. Senate Committee on Immigration Bill Files
Folder: S.236, Committee on Immigration, SEN 79A-E1, Box 22
Digitizer: Anu Kasarabada
Item History: 2015-03-19 (created); 2015-04-11 (modified)

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