essay
Chicago's Italian American rally for immigration reform
family and community life of Italian Americans • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1983 • Pages: 35-46
By: Cavaioli, Frank J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article depicts the role of the American Committee on Italian Migration (ACIM), and its Chicago chapter, in establishing Italian Americans as a major political force in the United States. The article also describes in detail how the lobbying activities of the ACIM were instrumental in establishing a new Immigration and Naturalization Law in 1965 that abolished the hated national origins quota system previously in effect.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Pressure politics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1950s - 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chicago, Ill., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Frank J. Cavaioli
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans