Tag: Muslim
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Hindus, Muslims, Persians, and Arabs in Gold Rush San Francisco
An 1851 San Francisco paper described a city of immigrants… I found a lovely line in an 1851 San Francisco newspaper that celebrates the diversity of Gold Rush San Francisco—a boom town whose residents included “Hindoos” (South Asians), “Mussulmans” (Muslims), and people “from the fairy lands of Persia and Arabia”: “In our streets, the fair…
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How did South Asian Americans respond to 9/11?
I discovered these original emails from September 2001 Looking at old letters and documents can help us understand how people were affected by larger historical events. I’m a community-based historian, so when I heard that Yahoo Groups was getting deleted, I started worrying about the destruction of archives. After some scrambling, I was able to…
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Indian Muslims in 1910 Oakland
3 Indian Muslims, a Russian Jewish landlord, and an unfinished story I was looking at local census records, when I ran across something intriguing. The 1910 census records show three Indian men living at 667 Fifth Street, Oakland, California (near present-day Jack London Square): They were born in India, and immigrated to the US in…