1987.051.001

An anthology of the stories of the European, Asian, Hispanic and Black women who came to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It combines memoirs, diaries, oral history and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. The women faced poverty, loneliness, discrimination and physical harm. The book explores women's work in the home, the farm and the factory. It shows women as active participants in American history. The readings emphasize the strengths and resourcefulness shown by immigrant women individually and collectively in coping with personal and cultural change.

This book was given in memory of Doris B. Knightly by Eartha Dengler.