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When Dalip Singh Saund rose to political prominence in the mid-1950'
the idle talk from World War II and the Korean War had not even now settled,
and xenophobia was in the air. Immigration laws restricted Asian
access to American shores, and those already living there couldn't
become citizens. It was in this political climate that Dalip Singh
Saund became the United States' first Asian American Congressman.

Born forward September 20, 1899 in a small village in northern India, Saund'
first political influences came from his Sikh upbringing, which
strongly withstands caste ...

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