(Indian-American Chronicles)
(Left) Photo titled 'Hindus at Bellingham, Washington, awaiting the train for Vancouver, B.C., after the race riot.' From The Foreign Invasion of the...
Snapshots from Indian-American history,
this month, that year
The “Postcard” (left) – October 3, 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson
signs the Immigration and Nationality Act, abolishing the national
origins...
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
In the early decades of the 20th century, with very few South Asian immigrants
in the United States, it...
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
July 29, 1913
– An immigration
case file for Arjan Singh (Case File
No. 12815/8-4).
Arjan Singh arrived in
San Francisco aboard...
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
July 31, 1946
– In a
letter responding to B.R.
Ambedkar, W.E.B. Du Bois
enclosed a statement
made by the National
Negro Congress to...
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
July 14, 1949
– An advertisement
announcing a lecture
by Madame Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit
entitled “India’s
First Ambassador to
the U.S.” to discuss
“American Opportunities
for Trade
with...
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
May 16, 1918
—An article
in the San Francisco Chronicle
describes the Marine Corps
Band playing a free concert at
a Children’s Hospital....
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
May 19, 1933 or 1939
—Dr. Bhagwan
S. Gyanee
delivers a lecture
on “The Evolution
of the Human Soul”
at the Melbourne
Hotel in St....
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
June 23, 2001
—A flier advertises “Color Me Queer On the
Pier,” the 6th Annual Queer People of Color Pride...
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
June 3, 1937
—A four-page
advertisement insert from the
Honolulu Advertiser, marking the
opening of the Watumull Building on
1162 Fort Street. The...
