Freedom fighter and arts advocate Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay connected with African American activists while she was in the United States. Writes Nico Slate in Colored Cosmopolitanism:

For Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, one of the most articulate champions of colored cosmopolitanism, being a woman, being socialist, and being “colored” were all vital to her identity and her sense of purpose. Her nearly two years in the United States allowed her to reach out to African Americans as a “coloured woman” who had dedicated her life to opposing not only imperialism and racism but gender-based oppression as well.

While traveling through the South, Kamaladevi “made a point of staying only with African American families”; these acts of solidarity and the support she received from African American communities and leaders were reported on in Indian newspapers.