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Nov 23, 2021 · Bhagat Singh Thind: The soldier whose fight for US citizenship reverberated for decades. His pursuit to become a naturalised citizen led to an influential Supreme Court judgement, which ruled...
Jul 1, 2023 · United States v. Thind, South Asian racialization, caste, Asian exclusion, naturalization. On February 19, 2023, the 100th anniversary of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (Thind), noted anti-racist scholar Dr. Ibram X. Kendi posted a Twitter thread about the case to his 419,000+ followers.
Reproduced by permission. (1892–1967). Indian American activist, author, and lecturer Bhagat Singh Thind gained a following in the United States for his spiritual teachings. He spent many years in the early 20th century fighting against racial prejudice to become a U.S. citizen.
- Immigration and Political Activism
- War Service and Citizenship Cases
- Later Life
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- Bibliography
Bhagat Singh Thind was born in the Punjab region of India. He migrated to Seattle in 1913 to attend graduate school. He was one of around 7000 Indian men who arrived in the Pacific Northwest around this time. Many of them were Punjabi Sikhs who were fleeing civil unrest, disease, and repression by British colonial authorities in India. They sought ...
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Bhagat Singh Thind enlisted in the U.S. Army. As part of his Sikh religion, he wore a turban and became the first turbaned soldier in the American military. Thind trained at Camp Lewis in Tacoma, Washington, and was honorably discharged in 1918. While he was in the army, Thind applied for U.S. cit...
In 1935, Thind became a U.S. citizen for the third and final time after Congress granted legal status to all World War I veterans. It was not until 1940 that all people from India became eligible for naturalization.Thind became a writer and lecturer on philosophy and Sikh religion. He died in 1967.
South Hall, the oldest building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 25, 1982. Bellingham authorities cooperated with the mob by keeping the South Asian workers under “protective custody” in the basement of the town’s city hall on the night of the riot. The next day ...
Coulson, Doug. “British Imperialism, the Indian Independence Movement, and the Racial Eligibility Provisions of the Naturalization Act: United States v. Thind Revisited.” Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 7 (2015): 1-42. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2610266 Coulson, Doug. Race, Nation, and Refuge: ...
Jun 12, 2012 · One of the broadest groupings is 'living' and 'non-living'. This may sound simple, but it is sometimes difficult to decide whether something is truly alive or not. Here we look at the characteristics of living things – using earthworms as an example.
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Jul 1, 2023 · Thind has been read primarily as a case about the racial identification of Indians in the United States and their racialized exclusion from citizenship.
