Stockton Immigrant Women

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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

The interview describes immigration from India (Punjab); building a career as a bilingual resource teacher; education; the Sikh Temple 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…

A wave of refugees from Vietnam fled their country in 1975. This group of immigrants arrive at a U.S. airport.

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