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Italian Immigrant Women: Weaving their Way into the Multi-Cultural Society in Connecticut



Gabriele Festa 

Senior Division

Individual Website

1,200 Original Words

454 Words in Process Paper

0:50 Minutes of Multimedia


Thesis

From the beginning to the middle of the 20th Century, millions of Southern Italian women traveled to the “land of opportunity”, breaking barriers by using their prosperity of work experience to enter Connecticut’s thriving industries and settle to keep alive their long-lasting traditions, which can still be seen today. 

Taken at Ellis Island by Augustus Sherman, a clerk at Ellis Island between 1904 and 1924. 



Parts of Interview with my immigrant grandmother from Italy.

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