LEADER 03295nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910457517903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62895-144-3 010 $a1-60917-202-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065568 035 $a(EBL)1672280 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000552141 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11366145 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552141 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10563778 035 $a(PQKB)10040144 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338115 035 $a(OCoLC)774285356 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9402 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338115 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514502 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065568 100 $a20100126d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sweetness of freedom$b[electronic resource] $estories of immigrants /$fStephen Garr Ostrander & Martha Aladjem Bloomfield 210 $aEast Lansing, Mich. $cMichigan State University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (413 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87013-977-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 Michigan 327 $aWe 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 330 $a 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an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan.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 fre 606 $aImmigrants$zMichigan$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aImmigrants$zMichigan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aOral history$zMichigan 607 $aMichigan$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aMichigan$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory 615 0$aOral history 676 $a977.4/03 700 $aOstrander$b Stephen Garr$01042119 701 $aBloomfield$b Martha Aladjem$0898437 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457517903321 996 $aThe sweetness of freedom$92466101 997 $aUNINA