Tag: Civil Rights
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Abdul Goffer Mondul’s battle for citizenship in 1909 Texas
He moved to Texas, fought for citizenship, and married a woman from Louisiana Abdul Goffer Mondul moved to the United States from India as a teenager in 1881, and built a life for himself in Texas. He worked as a peddler, married a White French-Irish woman named Mabel, and ended up in a difficult court…