03262nam 2200625 a 450 991078144020332120230725053838.01-62895-144-31-60917-202-7(CKB)2550000000065568(EBL)1672280(SSID)ssj0000552141(PQKBManifestationID)11366145(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552141(PQKBWorkID)10563778(PQKB)10040144(MiAaPQ)EBC3338115(OCoLC)774285356(MdBmJHUP)muse9402(Au-PeEL)EBL3338115(CaPaEBR)ebr10514502(EXLCZ)99255000000006556820100126d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sweetness of freedom[electronic resource] stories of immigrants /Stephen Garr Ostrander & Martha Aladjem BloomfieldEast Lansing, Mich. Michigan State University Pressc20101 online resource (413 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87013-977-0 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I Have a Beautiful Country to Work From; Where the Streets Were Paved with Gold; America Was the Best Country to Live In; We Wanted to Be American; Immigration Didn't Solve All Our Problems; We Weren't Always Welcome in America; Anything That I've Set My Mind to, I Usually Accomplish; No Mexicans Allowed!; The Trip Became a GreatAdventure; The Promiseof a Better Future; We Didn't Know How Our Future Would Be; We Have to Make the Best of the Situation; From Korea with Love; Call Your Brother in MichiganWe Belong to America Just as Much as America Belongs to UsI Never Believed I Would Stay in America; I Can Almost Taste the Sweetness of Freedom; Be Like the Bees-Make Plenty of Hives and Honey; Afterword The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain better education and jobs. Others - refugees - fled their homelands because of war, poverty, repression, religious persecution, or ethnic discrimination. All dreamt of freImmigrantsMichiganHistory19th centuryImmigrantsMichiganHistory20th centuryOral historyMichiganMichiganHistory19th centuryMichiganHistory20th centuryImmigrantsHistoryImmigrantsHistoryOral history977.4/03Ostrander Stephen Garr1526852Bloomfield Martha Aladjem1526853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781440203321The sweetness of freedom3769218UNINA