Online Collection 1912-12-07 Eastern Europeans began immigrating to New England in the 1880s and as their numbers rapidly grew, “Yankees” held mixed opinions about them.

Online Collection 1915 Prejudice toward Eastern European immigrant children is evidenced in this report, when in reality most were simply behind in their studies as a result of the language difference.

Online Collection 1900-05-19 The writer of this article considers Eastern European immigrants to be “our inferiors” in “all points of civilized development.”

Online Collection 1989-03-12 Updated research shows that thousands of Irish people were living in New England by the American Revolution.

Online Collection 1963-09-16 This editorial in the Greenfield Recorder is more optimistic than previous editorials about the progress of the movement for racial equality.

Online Collection 1927-08-25 To some people at the time of their trial, Italian-born anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti represented hostile, alien, and violent political ideologies brought to the United States by those who immigrated here.

Online Collection 1945-02-01 Sergeant Frank R. Dahowski, Jr. sent home this picture of himself and Edward Burakiewicz. It appeared, along with an article about the men in the February, 1945 Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper.

Online Collection 1973-06-29 Despite its title, this article focuses on the history of the immigrant groups who settled in the Deerfield, Massachusetts, area.

Online Collection 1837-11-22 This report concerns the numbers of immigrants from Great Britain to the United States in the early years of the 1830s.

Online Collection 1847-04-20 This article reports that 866,392 people emigrated from England from 1837 to 1846.

Online Collection 1900-06-02 Eastern European immigrants arriving in the Massachusetts Connecticut River Valley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not welcomed by all.

Online Collection 1913 In 1913, a new school was built in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, to aid in accommodating a large number of Easatern European immigrants.

Online Collection 1906 City directories like this one for Greenfield, Montague, and Deerfield, Massachusetts, were published annually and functioned both as an early address books and Yellow Pages (business advertisements.)

Online Collection 1950-02-22 In the case of Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, the United States Supreme Court decided, on February 20, 1950, that it was illegal for inspectors from the Immigration Service to also act as judges at deportation hearings.

Online Collection 1879 A section about Deerfield, MA, in this history includes information about the area’s settlement, schools, graveyards, factories, geology, and contributions made by Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the late 19th century.

Online Collection 2002-09-29 This article reports on the history of immigration to the mill town of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Online Collection 1911 These excerpts refer to the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts. The report concluded that Southern and Eastern European immigrants were inferior to those from Northern Europe.

Online Collection 1930-09-09 The economic collapse that began in 1929, presented a challenge to the administration of President Hoover regarding immigration.

Online Collection 1835-07-28 In the 19th century immigrants were often viewed as undesirable additions to the community.

Online Collection 1836-09-06 This article contains erroneous and stereotypical information about Italian immigrants.