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The Greek Americans (Immigrant Experience)
The Greek Americans - Immigrant Experience Author:Dimitris Monos, Sandra Stotsky Although a few Greeks came to America in the early 1800s, there was no large-scale immigration until late in the century. Then, between 1900 and 1920, 350,000 impoverished Greeks immigrated to the United States in search of economic opportunity. Many of them settled in the Northeast and worked at a great variety of jobs, from shining... more » shoes and street vending to fishing the coastal waters of New England. Others opened restaurants, coffee shops, and confectioneries. And some pressed farther into the continent, finding work in the midwestern factories or on the railroads and in the mines of the West.
Wherever they went, Greek Americans organized communities that kept alive their ancient language, culture, and religion. Today, the influence of this ethnic group reaches across the entire United States.« less