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Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes.html

Description:
An illustrated history of early Indian immigrants to California (primarily Sikhs from Punjab), featuring photographs, documents, and publications. Explores the passage to America, work, prejudice, the Gadar Party, the Stockton Sikh Temple, students, the exclusion of women, the Thind Decision (1923), the Luce-Cellar Act (1946), Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, and the Immigration and Nationality Act (1965). From the South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Author:
McMahon, Suzanne

Publisher:
University of California, Berkeley

Extra Keywords
East Indians

Dublin Core Material Type:
Collection, Text, Image

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Immigrants -- California
South Asian Americans
South Asian Americans -- History

LII Database Information:
Record 2059 created by Tom McGibney on 12/08/2002
Last modification on 08/09/2003
Published: 12/08/2002  
California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2059