A Times story in 1880 described immigrants, including Italians, as “links in a descending chain of evolution.” These characterizations reached a defamatory crescendo in an 1882 editorial that ...

By the 1880s and 1890s, Sicilians flooded into the port of New Orleans and dominated Italian immigration into Louisiana: over 80 percent of the Italian immigrants who arrived in New Orleans were ...

Many of the Italian immigrants recently landed at this port collected in groups at the Battery and the lower end of Broadway, the greater part of yesterday, and attracted the notice of every ...

Millions of Italian immigrants settled in the US ... More than 5 million Italians emigrated to the United States between 1880-1930 — including some 1.5 million from Sicily.

Between 1880 and 1920, some four million Italian immigrants left impoverished towns throughout southern Italy to seek a better life for their families in the U.S. Upon their arrival in America ...

200,000 Italian immigrants came to the U.S. yearly. The quotas allowed only 4,000 Italians and trapped Jews in Europe, many to be incinerated in the Holocaust. In 1880, 50 million people lived in ...

This makes up the largest ethnic group in the state. Between 1880 and 1920, 4 million Italian immigrants entered the United States, most of them taking their first steps on American soil at Ellis ...