Author：Linda Perrin

Publisher：Delacorte Press

Publishing Year：1980

Call Number：E184.O6P458

Introduction：The Coming To America series will consist of six books,each centering on a different cluster of ethnic groups. Unlike other studies of the immigrant experience, these do not focus solely on the crossing, Ellis Island, and what happened on United States soil but also on life in the “old country” and what caused our forebears to emigrate in the first place.

Each book in the series combines wide-ranging primary sources-diaries, letters, photographs, interviews-to create living stories of hope and adaptation to ‘the American way of life’.

Profusely illustrated, each volume contains documented sources, a bibliography, a brief history of U.S. immigration laws,and an index.