Immigrants of Boston


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People 		How Do
Immigrants
Come?		 Who
are
they?		 Songs
about
Immigrants		 Numbers
of
Immigrants		 More
Immigration
Stories


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or go down to see different immigrant groups.




New		 New citizens' ceremony


Americans
New Immigrants at Ellis Island by photographer Lewis Hine
  

 bring
new
ideas
  

Immigrant family in 1905
with United States stamp honoring immigants
 
them.



Inca dancer
They
bring their music
and dance,
 Indian dancers

Central Square World's Fair their
clothing
and
art,
pasta

their
foods
and
languages.
 tacos

New citizens' ceremony




New

Citizens
 New citizens' ceremony

garment workers
Garment  Workers


A test for new immigrants in the early 1900's.
They must finish in ten minutes.
The pilgrims were illegal immigrants

Somali women


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  Immigrants to Boston and rough dates of arrival of the biggest groups
Irish
 Eire
pronounced like aira
 1845
to
1860
 shamrock
Scottish
 Scotland
 1860
to
1930
 bagpipe player
Italians
 Italia 1860
to
1930
 pizza
Chinese zhong guo
pronounced jung go(k)
in Cantonese
(with tones)
1865
to 
1880
 drum and lion dance head
Jews
 yidn
pronounced yidn
 1880
to
1930		 menorah
Poles
and other Eastern Europeans
Polska
and Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, etc.
 1880
to
1930
 polish painted eggs
Dominicans
and many other Latinos
 Republica Dominicana
and many others countries		 1970
to
2000		 papaya
West Indians
Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Barbadans, Haitians
and others
 		Jamaica,Trinidad,
Barbados, Haiti
                                 pronounced like I T
 1970
to
2000
 palm tree
Africans
Somalis
Ethiopians
Cape Verdeans

and many others
 Soomaaliya
Ethiopia in Amharic
Cabo Verde
and many others countries
 1980
to
2000
 jembe drum
Vietnamese Viet-Nam

 1980
to
1995		 durian fruit

Copyright  Rebecca Pomerantz  2003


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