The Italian Immigrants of Post-1880

Sometimes Italians live in a box car when building long-term projects. This can be seen in the third photo of Sitelink, Italian worker, Padlrones, and Pani Chas pasta. The space of the box car is not so wide, it is shared by three workers. Obviously, there is no pipe, it is very dirty and probably has no furniture. These men are soiled and exhausted in the pictures. Since working days are usually more than 10 hours a day, more than 5 days a week, you can understand why some people live in the field.

Immigrants from South and Eastern Europe, including immigrants from Italy, are considered suspicious populations. Since 1880, Italian immigrants have flooded the country. Between 1900 and 1920, three million Italians migrated to the United States. Most are unskilled semi-skilled workers, others join a group specializing in social revolution and overwhelming capitalist systems. Postwar events caused a red panic, a period of panic about communist and anarchist threats. There was a wave of large strikes in this country. In the year after the war, 4 million workers strike in 1919. The Communist Revolution took place in Russia in 1917, and many Americans feared that a similar revolution will occur in the United States. The American anarchist group strongly opposed the war began a series of terrorist acts after the war. In April 1919, the postal bomb was sent to famous politicians and wealthy and powerful businessmen.

By 1870, there were approximately 25,000 Italian immigrants in the United States, many of whom were refugees from northern Italy, accompanied by a unification struggle of Italy and independence from foreign domination. Between 1880 and 1924, more than 4 million Italians migrated to the United States, half of which escaped from rural poverty in southern Italy and Sicily between 1900 and 1910 . Today, Italian Americans are the fifth largest ethnic group in America.

From 1880 to 1920, it is estimated that 4 million Italians migrated to the United States, many of whom were farmers and workers who escaped from poverty. In the United States they encounter religious discrimination, harsh working conditions, anti-Italian culture, regard them as inferior, and associate them with organized crime. In 1911, the report of the Dillingham Committee stated that: "There are several crimes in Italian races, the number of such crimes committed by Italians in this country guarantees the spread of this belief."