Showing stories tagged: 1920s
Halsted Street: The Rise and Resilience of Chicago's Greektown
For more than a century, a stretch of South Halsted Street on Chicago's Near West Side has been the beating heart of Greek America…
Little Athens on the East River: How Greeks Made Astoria Their Own
Astoria, Queens became the largest Greek community outside of Greece itself by the 1970s, a city within the city where the languag…
Monroe Street: Detroit's Greektown and the Neighborhood That Outlasted the City Around It
Detroit's Greektown was built by immigrants who came for the auto industry and stayed to build churches, restaurants, and a commun…
The Closed Door: Greeks, the 1924 Immigration Act, and the Ship Jumpers
— Greek Immigrants and Ship Jumpers, Post-1924, from Various regions of Greece
In 1924, the United States Congress reduced the annual immigration quota for Greece to one hundred people per year — a deliberat…
Married by Photograph: The Greek Picture Brides of America
— Greek Picture Brides of America, from Various regions of Greece
Thousands of young Greek women crossed the Atlantic in the early twentieth century to marry men they had never met, knowing them o…