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…continued to live with his two aunts. His marriage in 1924 with Sonia Greene, who was seven years his senior, lasted only until 1926. Sonia was a Jew and she has recalled that her husband hated Jewish immigrants. After two miserable year in New York, 'a babel…

…. Police officers do things and most of the time they get away with it. This causes uproar in our communities. How much longer do we have to suffer before the government takes action? It all started in 1997, when a Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima…

…ALLEN GINSBERG Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, to a Jewish Russian immigrant family. His father, Louis, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a moderate Jewish Socialist. His mother, Naomi, was a radical Communist who…

…a lot of votes when they ran for office because the common people were voting for them. Plunkitt didn’t just give the new immigrants a job and a place to live; he interacted with them and knew everyone within his Fifteenth district. “To learn real human…

…, including Abraham Lincoln. Other Americans belonged to the Know-nothing Party, which blamed immigrants and Roman Catholics for the country's problems. In 1858, the Democratic Party was divided over a constitution that proslavery Kansas hoped to have adopted…

…in the steel industry. He came from a poor family and had little formal education. When the Carnegies immigrated to America in 1848, Andrew was determined to bring prosperity to his family. He worked many small jobs, which included working for the Pennsylvania…

…mother was a church-going woman and she sang in the choir. At home, Chloe heard many songs and tales of Southern black folklore. The Woffords were proud of their heritage. Lorain was a small industrial town populated with immigrant Europeans, Mexicans…

…took some good advice from a man he met in London. Benjamin Franklin met Paine in London and could see promise and intelligence in him and suggested that he immigrate to America. Franklin also offered to sponsor Paine and write him a letter…

…people who were the first ground breakers of the nation. Taking the land of immigrants, railroads, corporations, and the wealthy giving it to the "producers". In conclusion, The "producer" ideology of the Populist movement of the 1890s failed because…

…an essay or even spell. A main controversy was bilingual education for newly naturalized immigrants. As America entered the early 1900s, the debate turned to the use of entertainment in the classroom. Teachers felt that they must put on a show in order to keep…