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Czech Immigration to the U.S. since 1860

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JMM344

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October 7: Lecture held at the Wilson Center, Prague: Victor Greene and Stepanka Korytova on the Czech Migration

October 14: Introduction, generalization about migration

October 21: Background of emigration in Bohemia

October 28: - Holiday: Czechoslovak Independence Day

November 4: The Push to Leave, the Pull to Stay

November 11: Settlement and Occupational Patterns in US

Herbert W. Kuhn "Milwaukee's Early Bohemians"

November 18: Czechs among other ethnic groups. Slovaks

Dominic A. Pacyga "Chicago's 1919 Race Riot"

November 25: Will be announced

December 2: Ties to the Homeland

Dominic A. Pacyga "Chicago's Pilsen Park and the Struggle for?"

December 9: Review

December 16: Final Examination

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Purpose: To understand the developments and complexity of contemporary American society, it is important to know the history of immigration.