Residential Persistence of Baltimore's Italians, 1880-1920
Author: Diana Bonhard Carrick
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 260
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Author: Diana Bonhard Carrick
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Mark Stolarik
Publisher: Balch Institute Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780944190005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection concentrates on the story of immigration through ports of entry to the United States other than Ellis Island, including Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The ethnic development of these cities is described.
Author: Suzanna Rosa Molino
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467105937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItalian immigrants flocked to America beginning in the mid-1800s unaware of the hardships ahead, much like the harsh conditions they left behind in Italy. Despite discrimination, scarce employment, hunger, and drudgery, they courageously established trades, businesses, parishes, and solid family life in neighborhood enclaves nearly identical to their native villages. Close to two centuries later, Baltimore's thriving Italian community marvels at the grit and backbone of their families in their conquest of Americanization. Fortified by love of today's famiglia, food, traditions, faith, and close-knit community, Baltimore Italians celebrate their ethnicity while honoring those before them. These captivating photographs--cherished and generously shared by families of Baltimore's Italian immigrants--offer a brief yet fascinating insight into some of their rich history: who came from which village, how they paved the way, the jobs they worked, how they grew up, and the bravery displayed as they fought in wars for the United States. They did not sacrifice their birthright to become American; instead, they humbly added to it and called themselves Italian Americans.
Author: Salvatore Mondello
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780405134418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gordon H. Shufelt
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 259
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Salvatore Mondello
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Published: 1980
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy A. Hacsi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780674796447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Timothy Hacsi shows, most children in nineteenth-century orphan asylums were "half-orphans," children with one living parent who was unable to provide for them. The asylums spread widely and endured because different groups - churches, ethnic communities, charitable organizations, fraternal societies, and local and state governments - could adapt them to their own purposes. In the 1890s, critics began to argue that asylums were overcrowded and impersonal. By 1909, advocates called for aid to destitute mothers, and argued that asylums should be a last resort, for short-term care only. Yet orphanages continued to care for most dependent children until the Depression strained asylum budgets and federally funded home care became more widely available. Yet some, Catholic asylums in particular, cared for poor children into the 1950s and 1960s.
Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio Information Services
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. Edward Orser
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0813184053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.