Where did Asian-Indian Americans live in the 1950s?

Question

I have to find where Asian-Indian Americans lived in the 1950s through out the coutnry. Also it would be helpful you can include the type of housing too.

Answer 1

There were very few here. Some had come for better economic opportunities around the turn of the century and settled on the west coast, but the immigration laws in the early part of the century cut off immigration, except for the well educated. The only Indians I encountered outside of California in the 1950's were faculty and students at Universities.

Answer 2

A very large percentage lived on the west coast, especially California, in lower class sections of the cities. Many Japanese Americans had just been freed from "camps" though, kinda like detention camps, because many Americans were very suspicious of Japanese during WWII. Kinda like the sad situtuation we are in now with Arabs, who are constantly looked upon as being enemies of democracy, though they are not.

Answer 3

Manchester . The worked in textile mills /Cable and wireless and lived in working class poor districts .

Answer 4

maybe south America,

Answer 5

perhaps they lived in their houses