Redefining the Immigrant South contains several illuminating images but not every image that I found in the archives could be included. I’ve added some of the remaining images below. They’re fascinating in their own right, as each tells its own story while also enlarging the history of U.S. public diplomacy and immigration from South Asia.
US Information Library, India. 1956. National Archives College Park, Still Pictures. #56-7313
An audience of schoolchildren watches a USIS motion picture in Bombay, India. National Archives College Park, Still Pictures. ND.
East Pakistanis outside the USIS Center in Dacca during the 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. 1961. National Archives College Park, Still Pictures. #61-10437.
President Lyndon B. Johnson gives White House literature to students from Pakistan and India after personally conducting them through his offices. 1970. National Archives College Park, Still Pictures. #306-PSD-65-3318. Copyright: World Wide Photos.
India Students Association at the University of Houston. 1969. Houstonian Yearbook Collection, 1969, p. 262. UH Libraries, Special Collections.
UH India Students Association with faculty adviser outside Cullen Auditorium, 1970. Houstonian Yearbook Collection, 1970, p. 343. UH Libraries, Special Collections