But, I did! :)
This is way off topic, but it's a bit like the post you had about the mistreatment of the early Chinese and other Asian immigrants. Over some time I tried but could not find the NPR podcast. As an immigrant myself, I had interest in the topic.
Immigrants can definitely can have it rough.
Recently, once again, I got to look at the (WW-II troop carrying) ship's manifest that brought my parents, my siblings and me to the USA in 1950. It listed our destination as Madison, Wisconsin. We wound up in Hughesville, Maryland as sharecroppers on a tobacco farm. We had no choice about anything. We were DPs (displaced persons) and had a sponsor, the original who must have backed off, who would provide us with work and a place to live for some time (I'm guessing a year). My parents were given a salary of $15/week. That's not an hour or a day, but a week! But it was 1950 and you could get a 6 1/2 oz [add on edit] bottle of Coke for 4 cents provided you left the empty bottle in the store. We stayed there 2 growing seasons before moving on to NYC.
Tonight I am recording the PBS 3 part documentary on Asian Americans which I expect to cover some of what you mentioned.
This is way off topic, but it's a bit like the post you had about the mistreatment of the early Chinese and other Asian immigrants. Over some time I tried but could not find the NPR podcast. As an immigrant myself, I had interest in the topic.
Immigrants can definitely can have it rough.
Recently, once again, I got to look at the (WW-II troop carrying) ship's manifest that brought my parents, my siblings and me to the USA in 1950. It listed our destination as Madison, Wisconsin. We wound up in Hughesville, Maryland as sharecroppers on a tobacco farm. We had no choice about anything. We were DPs (displaced persons) and had a sponsor, the original who must have backed off, who would provide us with work and a place to live for some time (I'm guessing a year). My parents were given a salary of $15/week. That's not an hour or a day, but a week! But it was 1950 and you could get a 6 1/2 oz [add on edit] bottle of Coke for 4 cents provided you left the empty bottle in the store. We stayed there 2 growing seasons before moving on to NYC.
Tonight I am recording the PBS 3 part documentary on Asian Americans which I expect to cover some of what you mentioned.