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The Closed Door: Greeks, the 1924 Immigration Act, and the Ship Jumpers
β 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 β a deliberatβ¦
The Men of Carbon County: Greek Miners in the American West
β Greek Immigrant Miners of Utah, from Crete, Peloponnese, and various regions of Greece
From the villages of Crete and the Peloponnese, thousands of young Greek men came to the coal mines and copper smelters of Utah inβ¦
Why They Left: The Forces That Drove Greek Emigration to America
Between 1880 and 1924, more than 400,000 Greeks left their country for America. They did not leave because they wanted to. They leβ¦
Married by Photograph: The Greek Picture Brides of America
β 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 oβ¦