Stockton Immigrant Women
Dublin Core
Title
Stockton Immigrant Women
Description
This collection consists of oral history interviews and other primary source materials pertaining to the history of immigrant women in the Stockton area. The collection is built upon the work of Dr. Sally Miller, who was a Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She organized a conference and three seminars concerning Stockton immigrant women in 1980-81. Miller had her students interview sixty-five women of twenty-seven nationalities ranging in age from twenty to ninety years old. Most of the women interviewed had come to the United States between 1920 and 1950.
Source
DELTA WOMEN ORAL HISTORIES, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Date
1920s through 1980s
Rights
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Language
English
Collection Items
Bal, Tejinder Interview
The interview describes immigration from India (Punjab); building a career as a bilingual resource teacher; education; the Sikh Temple in Stockton; race and privilege; antiwar protests; expectations of American; balancing motherhood with education;…
Vietnamese Girls in Stockton
Stockton, like many cities in California, became home to a large population of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s. This group of Vietnamese girls displays national costumes and performs folk dances of their country at a Stockton school ethnic…
Group of Vietnamese Refugees Arriving in the United States
A wave of refugees from Vietnam fled their country in 1975. This group of immigrants arrive at a U.S. airport.
