Cleveland, Louise. – Pacifica Radio Archives

The Journey / produced by Louise Cleveland.

Reminiscences by women who immigrated to the United States. Includes reading of a 19th century shipboard diary by Liv Ullman.

Immigrants recall their arrival in the U.S. and the problems of the quota system, exclusion laws and deportation.

Examination of ethnic neighborhoods, past and present, with interviews with Florence Scala and Congressperson Barbara Mikulski.

Examination of America’s turn-of-the-century factories and sweatshops and the passage of job safety laws and labor organization.

Immigrant women describe their work as domestic servants, farm wives and shopkeepers.

Immigrant women from the turn-of-the-century through today discuss their educational struggles in the United States.

Paula Marshall and Jesse Lopez de la Cruz are among the women who discuss the organizations founded by immigrant women.