Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell receives letter of support for naturalization of Indians
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
April 25, 1944
– Joseph Fox, Secretary-
Treasurer of the Cafeteria
Employees Union, writes a
letter to Georgia’s Senator
Richard B. Russell,
Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Immigration,
expressing support
to allow naturalization
of Indian nationals.
The letter states, “I wish to record our support for the bills H.R. 4415 and H.R. 4479 sponsored respectively by Congressman Celler of New York and Congresswoman Luce of Connecticut and bill S. 1595 sponsored by Senator Langer of North Dakota, now pending in congress, to permit the naturalization in the United States of the nationals of India.”
Alice Itty is a volunteer for the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). She currently works for the Alliance for Downtown New York. This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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