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Italian emigration to America
One of my grandfather’sbrothers went to America.
This picture was sent by myancestor. It was taken in Brooklyn.
Ellis IslandThe gateway to America
Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears.
The first stepson U.S. soil weretaken in a placethat has nowbecome a legend: EllisIsland
The immigrants were taken to Ellis Island for legal and medical inspection
Failure to pass the legal and medicalinspection would lead to separation from family and deportation back to Italy.
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The Italian emigrants who passed the test of Ellis Island scattered all over the New York region. The greatest concentration of all was in Manhattan.
Mulberry Street - Little Italy, Manhattan
in the first years of the twentiethcentury and nowdays
Prejudice and discrimination
followed the Italianemigration to America.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMDZGQGeK6A
Now Italians are the fifth ethnic groupin terms of size, and one in ten Americans has Italian ancestry
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