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BIBIBLIOGRAPHY
-Alan Kraut. "Immigration in the Early 1900s." Http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com. The Immigrant in American Society. Web. 19 May 2012.-"Digital History." Digital History. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm>.
-Gilbert, Steven. "Attachments." Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire>.
-"Immigration: The Italians." ThinkQuest. Oracle Foundation. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html>.
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CHARACTER: BELLA.
Much of the
inspiration to write this blog came from the novel Uprising, by Margaret
Peterson Haddix. In her book, one of the three main characters is Bella, a
young Italian immigrant just newly arrived in America, with many hopes and
dreams. She comes to America to help her family back in Italy; hoping to send
money back to them. She is greeted by her cousin Pietro, to whom she finds
herself immensely attracted to. He takes her to the Lucianos, an Italian family
that rents her a tenement. She starts working in the triangle shirtwaist
factory, after Pietro gets her the job. After a while living with them, Pietro
has to leave, as the construction company he worked for moved to another state.
Bella was devastated, and to even worsen everything, she finds out the Luciano's
have been cheating her and never sent her money back home, and now her family
is all dead. She later meets Yetta, a Russian immigrant with a passion for
rebellion, and ideas of a strike. She had a sister named Rahael, who had ran
away from Russia after having problems with the government for her rebellious
acts. She then meets Jane, a rich girl who ran away from home. Bella has an
interesting point of view of the world, taking in appreciation the smallest
things. She is very grateful of her life in America, as she had close to
nothing back in Italy. She is usually the one that cheers up the group of friends,
and is a very humble girl. Bella is
deeply involved in a strike that Yetta and Rahael started, and works hard every
day for a change. After a while, the strike ends, with some points won and others
lost. After a few months of struggling through, the fire happens. She wants to
die, but survives to save other people. She is the only one of the three
friends, Bella, Yetta and Jane, that survives to save other people. She is the
only one of the three friends, Bella, Yetta and Jane, that survives the fire,
she then marries the Luciano's son (who was adopted by a graduate's family thus
becoming Rocco Livingston) and becomes Miss Livingston, who tells the story.
ITALIAN IMMIGRATION.
From the 1860's to the 1900's, Italians migrated to the US more than any European nationals. This was due to the fact that there was high rates of poverty, natural disasters and overpopulation in Italy. They came to America in the search of a better life. By the 1870's, death rates began to fall and birthrates started to rise back in Italy. Also the country had an extremely large illitaracy rate, that reached as much as 70%.
Most Italians in northern U.S. didn't plan to stay in the US for the rest of their lives or for long periods of time, that was due to the fact that, contrary to most immigrants, Italians didn't want to farm to be able to travel to their native country. They were known as hardworkers and took jobs no one else would take, things like ragpicking, sewer cleaning and shoe shining. They were also notable for seldom taking charity, or resorting to prostitution for money.
Italians usually settled in different comunities depending their place of origin back in Italy. Most northern Italians settled in California, while Sicilians clustered in New Orleans. They almost never grouped in all-Italian communities, but rather shared neighborhoods with Jews, Germans and the Poles. Either way, most Italians lived in mid-Atlantic cities, such as New York and Pennsylvania, with Italian inmingrant populations of 472,000 and 200,000, respectively, in 1910.
Italians adchieved notable succes in many areas, such as sports, politics, and entertainment. They also stood out with their classical and popular music. They generally succeded in areas that did not demand a high level of education, such as construction and small business ownership. Unfortunatelly, they were also known as the most powerfull crime organization.
Italians were mostly the workers that built NYC's first skyscrapers. Italian workers were the dominant immigrants in the working force by far, as many as 90 percent of NYC's public works employees and 99 percent of street workers were Italian immigrants. Most of the money immigrants made, they sent back to their families in Italy.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Italian.html
SOME PHOTOS OF THE FIRE.
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
A political cartoon about women's rights.
May Day Parade.
"I DO not have all the rights I want. I want the right to close the mines and mills
against the babies and to drive the beaters hired by corporations into a better buisness. I want
the right to put decent and educated men into the offices which shall controll the
education of my children and the safety of my home. I want the right to legally own my child and
my day's wages in every state of the country. I want the right to say what will be the tariff on the child's shoes, and whether the judge that may condemn me to death shall be a wise man or an ignorant politician. I want the right to protect men and women more unfortunate than myself, and to bring myslef to the advantages, blessings, and liberty which are mine under the constitution. I want all the rights which have to do with dignity, power, honor, usefulness, patriotism, citizinship, and I want them now. Jane"
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 9, page 1
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