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The history of Polish immigration to the United States can be divided into three stages, beginning with the first stage in the colonial era down to 1870, small numbers of Poles and Polish subjects came to America as individuals or in small family groups, and they quickly assimilated and did not form separate communities, with the exception of Panna Maria, Texas founded in the 1850s.
Polish immigrants chose to chain-market the job positions to their friends and relatives, and it was very common for a Polish friend with good English to negotiate wage rates for newer immigrants. [68] Polish Americans favored steel areas and mining camps, which had a high demand for manual labor; favorite destinations included Chicago, Detroit ...
Logan Lerman (born 1992), actor; his maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and the rest of Logan's ancestry is Russian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, and other Polish Jewish Justin Long (born 1978), film and television actor; his mother, former Broadway actress Wendy Lesniak, is of half Polish descent
The following communities have more than 30% of the population as being of Polish ancestry, based on data extracted from the United States Census, 2000, for communities with more than 1,000 individuals identifying their ancestry (in descending order by percentage of population): [31] Pulawski Township, Michigan 65.7%; Posen Township, Michigan 65.4%
Polish American voters are having a moment. ... Polish immigrants began arriving in the U.S. at the turn of the last century to work in coal mines. Those who ended up in Pennsylvania worked in ...
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America is a book by Florian Znaniecki and William I. Thomas, considered to be one of the classics of sociology.The book is a study of Polish immigrants to the United States and their families, based on personal documents, and was published in five volumes in the years 1918 to 1920.
Emigrants from the Second Polish Republic to the United States (1 P) Pages in category "Polish emigrants to the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 897 total.
“Two decades later, it is clear that Hmong Americans have followed exactly the path of German or Polish immigrants in the early 20th century: A sometimes-rocky transition and an older generation ...