SHIPS - Italian Immigration to U.S. in the Early 20th Century

[@chrisventura1881]

Amazing story salute to all my Paesani in Italia and all over esp Rhode Island. Much love from NY.. Im 2nd and 3rd generation from Queens to LI, I love learning about our People. My family has insane stories as well. Salute.🇮🇹✌🏼🇺🇸

[@amymcginty6634]

God Bless You, Grandma & Grandpa, & Nonna & Nonno for your sacrifices & hard work to establish your lives in The United States of America, and making our lives here possible. Thank you for your love of America & your love for us. Thank you for your dreams & accomplishments, your humor & lessons on how to live & love. Thank you for your love of God🙏 I love you so much & miss you so much I ache. I’ll never forget you & I pray for you always 🙏😘🥰💕💖

[@graveyardelf6765]

True God-fearing Americans. We'll see them again.

[@fob1xxl]

I wouldn't be here today if my grandparents hadn't come here from Italy in 1906, when my dad was 3 years old.

[@jeboccuzzi10]

You and me both 👍🏻

[@richierichpalmer9924]

Me three

[@donnapadula1658]

My family too

[@benjaminallen2370]

Great video. My great grandfather emigrated from northern Italy to Providence, RI. Lived in a tarpaper shack and eventually started doing construction with a shovel and wheel barrow. Through hard work grew into a major roadbuilding corp under the Eisenhower interstate development era. Such interesting times. Much of my family still in RI.

[@dablacks3749]

God bless my four grandparents. Growing up they were very patriotic to the United States as well as my parents. My father who is a world war two hero.

[@modestacattaruzza7400]

This resilient people came to a very new land , and brought their experience, expertise, indurance, strength, class , finess, fashion, skills of every kind, elegance, cleanliness, cousine smartness and much more. Very proud of them all.

[@davidhollingsworth1723]

One thing they brought BACK to the New World were tomatoes and peppers. The Spaniards introduced them into Southern Europe from Mexico. WASP, Irish and Northern Europeans wouldn't eat them cuz they tought they were poison. Italian cuisine!!!! The greatest!!!!

[@Donna-cc1kt]

Proud to be an Italian American. God bless my grandmother

[@JulieAnderocci]

Thank you for serving our country ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@modestacattaruzza7400]

God bless them all for their hard work, stamina 💪🙏 and a lot of guts

[@Tina-bs2ot]

So proud of my grand parents and parents aunts and uncles who came to US first and then to Canada with only the clothes on their back! Italians are not recognized enough for their hard work and contrbutions to society. They were discriminated agsinst in the early 1900 and never rehashed or played the victims.Worked extremely hard to make a life for themselves and never took a dime ftom anyone! Working on the railroad and in factoties. Such humble people that had a simple life that shared a loaf of bread among 11 people. Can you imagine living this life? I'm so proud of my Italian family! Thank you yo my grand parents znd mh beloved parents for teaching me ethics, morals and respect!

[@ZacharyDuhamel]

Gerardo's shoe store is now the site of East Providence City Hall and an excellent coffee shop called Cafe Zara. Will think about his story every time I stop in for an espresso.

[@ShipHistory]

It's actually the Myrtle, a new bar and music venue. It's on the corner of Waterman Avenue and Ivy Street in East Providence. Gerardo was actually my great-great grandfather! You can learn more about this venue and their grand opening happening this month on their instagram page @myrtle.rhodeisland.They are even keeping the classic sign.

[@ZacharyDuhamel]

@ShipHistory Hey I know that sign!! See you there, I guess? 😂

[@ShipHistory]

@@ZacharyDuhamel Unfortunately I no longer live in the area, but some of my family members will likely be there.

[@annettewhitlock2002]

My grandfather's radio was confiscated in WWII and he had been here for almost 20 years. When they wanted to give it back to him, he had some choice words for them!

[@alexmele5193]

My great granpa migrated to the States in 1905, he entered through Ellis Island, I managed to find the document with his name even if it was misspelled! His name was Santoro and came from Sicily but they spelled it Satoro, ‘forgetting’ the N which made sound his name Japanese rather :) Anyway he was 25 years old when he landed and he went there as bricklayer, even he probably was more likely an agricultural worker but hey in those days men were able to do many things…he left behind a wife with 2 children by then, some time later, while he was sending money to his wife to go to the States too, she told him she wasn’t going to move to the States! She used that money to buy some land in Sicily and not to buy tickets for the ship! So he went back to Sicily for her and his children leaving the rest of his family, his siblings and other members in St.Louis, Missouri …they went on to have 4 more children and my granma being the last, the 6th child to be born so now I come from that branch that went back to Sicily but I still have plenty of relatives scattered around the States, Missouri, NY, Canada …an amazing mix in a rather romantic family history…some still carry my great granpa surname FIRRERI in the States and some share the same first names like Dorotea, that turned into the English, less nice version of Dorothy for example…intriguing past and I wish I knew more of my American family! By the way, on the land my great granma bought, my granma and her sister build two houses right across from the beach and those houses are still there! We are not the owners anymore but my granma’s sister descendants still own theirs!! Does anyone else love this story??

[@Susan.I]

My grandfather and great grandfather came over together, they worked hard saving money for a trip back to Italy and getting great grandmother and grandma. They were able to buy a house, have children and set up businesses!

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

I encourage everyone to research the ship their family traveled on. You can often see pictures. My grandparents arrived on a tiny tuna can that sank on a subsequent journey.

[@rosieE121]

Matches stories my grandma told us about coming to America. They brought their own food. People dying on board of dysentery. Passing health checks on arrival.

[@nuffsaid783]

We need to really appreciate the sacrifice our ancestors made coming to America leaving behind relatives and facing a harsh trip across the Atlantic. Dio benedica

[@coppercoloredmessiah911]

Go back home

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

Why don't you? Your people always complaining of racism/oppression! America was discovered, named after, and the English were brought here to settle by 3 ITALIANS.@@coppercoloredmessiah911

[@stricklycorrugated4876]

My dad was born in 1938 to an Italian mother and a German father. He was raised in a white Protestant San Francisco neighborhood. He did not consider himself white and he told us stories how the other kids told him that he wasn’t bad… for a “dago”. He was much more olive complected than his mother and my grandmother would always remind us that her family was from Northern Italy. This meant nothing to us grand kids. In the 1990s , my dad moved to a small Texas town where he received an invitation letter from the local branch of the KKK. He laughed and said that the KKK must be lowering their recruitment standards. When my sister and I completed our 23 tests and we discovered that my sister is all northern Italian , but I am southern and Sicilian. Which makes sense because , like my dad, in Texas, have always been mistaken for Hispanic. Thanks for sharing. It’s good to know where these attitudes came from historically.

[@Vid7872]

Very interesting about the restriction of Italian passengers on only Italian steamers. That's a huge loss of revenue. My mother worked on the Giulio Cesare bringing tourists from Genova to N America

[@colemcclain7319]

Glad i found this. Thanks for the info😊

[@ShipHistory]

Check out shiphistory.org/2017/07/10/immigration-to-providence/ to learn more!

[@jdolce101]

This is very well done. Thank you

[@terryannmaes5538]

My Italian ancestors on my mom's side actually came here in 1884 from San Fele, Potenza.

[@gregbythesea]

Excellent. Great information.

[@paolazuffinetti]

Very interesting video with important pictures: greatly appreciated, saved to be kept and watched many times.

[@CEB731]

My family came to America in the early 30's and moved to Providence, too.

[@lilythomas869]

Human nature you gotta love it.

[@paulj2948]

Back when our ancestors came LEGALLY

[@elenagirelli170]

If any Italian- American is intested, there is a poem by Dino Campana "Viaggio a Montevideo", I am sure you will find the English translation. I consider it a relevant piece of literature on the subject, although about reaching South America...

[@craigmignone2863]

I trace my ancestry to Atwells Avenue on the heights my grandfather was on a ship called the ASTIA in 1909 and he was just a kid too

[@debradowling800]

My great grandmother’s last name was Fabre. Doubt she was related to the liners owner. She came over on the Neustria

[@LymphaticRestorationTherap-y8b]

I wish I could find more information about my great grandmother who came here in 1909. She was only 9 years old and was "sponsored" by an Italian mob family and put into a textile factory outside of Philly. I can only imagine how this journey was for her. She spoke of those years with anger and fear. It is so hard to find information about her history.

[@ShipHistory]

We have a great resource on how to conduct your own genealogy research! Learn more at shiphistory.org/immigration-by-passenger-ship-research-guide/.

[@rondunn4336]

In those days they came to work and prosper, today many come for the free gifts from a welfare state paid by tax payers.

[@GaryHanlon-ee7xw]

The good Men and Women who helped America.grow came here legally. They entered through Ellis Island !

[@BeatriceBeatrice-i3m]

If you want to learn, cry and appreciate your ancestors who immigrated to America at all costs please read: LA STORIA, 500 years of Italian/Americsn History..

[@elainepeterson1269]

Yes, very eye opening.

[@daviddorci1322]

My grandfather came over in that same ship in 1909

[@klmiller333]

My great grandparents and grandmother came here from Calabria Italy after the 1908 earthquake. This video tells me we the USA didn’t treat them very well. A lot of Italians worked in coal mines in West Virginia. We sold them fairytales.

[@davidhollingsworth1723]

After seeing this documentary, I was shocked and amazed!!!!! One of my work colleagues was Abbruzzese. His father told him it was not non Italians who exploited the immigrants rather fellow Italians!!!! The conditions under which steerage passengers are a disgrace in all respects! Apropos quotas, many immigrants snuck in from Canada.

[@monie1527]

When I was a little girl, my parents & I immigrated to the US, from EU. This was the late 1960's. I can clearly remember a farmer looking down at me saying "I ain't selling to no goddamned foreigner." Nice thing to say to an 8 year old little girl. This type of "Amerikkan" behavior WAS accepted & LEGAL in the 1960's and not much has changed, unfortunately.

[@JohnPaul-pb4eu]

6:48 - Its Abruzzo...NOT ABERUZZIO😮😮😮

[@sandrafarley7433]

Itiians worked very hard

[@overgamez497]

Does anybody have a summary about this? My teacher wants one of it.

[@delucaboi]

bro💀

[@ShipHistory]

You can learn more at shiphistory.org/2017/07/10/immigration-to-providence/

[@kathleenpapaleo253]

Watch the video and please write your own summary for your teacher. Many Italians are great writers. You might be one, too!

[@JulieAnderocci]

Pizza pizza and more pizza❤❤❤❤❤

[@berniezander]

My grandparents immigrated from the Naples region in 1918. They traveled in steerage, and said they were processed at " The Battery, " not on Ellis Island. As they became established in the US, they learned to speak English, said " we are Americans, we speak English." As Italians they were viewed as second class citizens, and my Dad and his siblings were not taught how to speak Italian. I have a cousin named KAREN who is a MAGAT. She made a claim that "our grandparents immigration was legal" as an argument for current border security problems. However, she conveniently overlooks the fact that the American nationalist MAGATs of the day would have persecuted and sh_t on our Italian immigrant grandparents.

[@kathleenpapaleo253]

Facts.

[@klmiller333]

Wow. I did not know that some came through the battery. I’ll have to research it.

[@bluesman1947]

Your cousin is right. Only in 1924, with the passing of the new immigration law it was mandatory to have a visa,and passport to enrmter the USA.

[@dannotary951]

Cousin is no good

[@aprile271]

Yes we did make a big move and we all adapted to the RULES of the usa not get paid for doing nothing either

[@Ivehadenuff]

You, personally, did not .

[@vincenzafiorica]

I came here by boat in 1972

[@ShipHistory]

Would you be interested in an interview about this experience? Please fill out the contact form at shiphistory.org/ships/

[@ryankellypa]

Mancini from west Pennsylvania, wondering how we got here.

[@ShipHistory]

You can learn how to research your own family history here: shiphistory.org/immigration-by-passenger-ship-research-guide/

[@Glenn-In-PA]

My grandparents and their families all immigrated from Calbria, Italy to the US. My grandmother said she remembered sailing into Ellis Island and seein the statue of liberty for the first time. When they came thru immagrations, all their Italian names were changed by the port authorities. What a shame that our last name was Americanized. My last name is spelled 4 different ways due to this What a shame us Italians had to endure during the plight to get into America. They became citizens and my Grandfather fought in WWII. Today anyone can cross our borders, no questions asked, ruin our way of life, and we as Americans are reqired to adapt to them, their languages and way of life. I blame the US governent for this and its only getting worse 😢😢😢

[@k.i.l.l.7935]

those are some cool cartoons,

[@antoniofarinaccio541]

The coming in North America was a challenge in it self but to really understand what push them here is another issue. Southerners the citizens of the ex kingdom of the Two -Sicily's had no choice, "Brigandi o Emigranti." They wear pushed out of their land by invading army of Piedmont and every thing was taken from them. They all faced "Domicilio Coatto. " Prison camps it was a cleansing of culture and people. The south became a colony of the north. There was no other way. Read Loreto Giovannone and Miriam Compagnino, "DEPORTATI." Also "Essays in European History." June K. Burton."

[@atatsmail260]

They were better off in their homeland

[@JulieAnderocci]

I will not go to new orleans 😢😢😢😢😢

[@JulieAnderocci]

Time to come america 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@niiro.4380]

my teacher want me to make a mind map on this please help me! i will give you some chocolate.

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

When you become literate we will accept the chocolate, if it is bittersweet.

[@Puchiaca69]

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[@Puchiaca69]

U no say the truth this no really deal u have wrong story

[@sandrafarley7433]

Get over it boo who

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

Hey soul brothers ITALIANS HAD IT ROUGH TOO YET WE STILL LOVE AMERICA GOOBtza heads

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

We proud ITALIANS LEARNED ENGLISH. NO NEED FOR TWO LANGUAGES. ITALIAN PROUD YOU HEARCTHAT BIDEN

[@zaqwsx23]

The writer and politician Emilio Lussu said a phrase that has gone down in history: "Language is my homeland." Peoples and cultures distinguish themselves through language, which is the vehicle of culture. Italian literature has been entirely written in Italian, with some works in local dialects. Books written by Italians directly in other languages are rare. Italian music features over 90% of lyrics in Italian or Italian dialects (and ranks third in the world by economic value, after music sung in English and Spanish, despite Italian having about one-eighth the number of native speakers of these languages). The same goes for Italian cinema (with the percentage reaching 100% in dubbed versions). Language creates culture and vice versa.

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

We proud ITALIANS LEARNED ENGLISH. NO NEED FOR TWO LANGUAGES. ITALIAN PROUD YOU HEARCTHAT BIDEN

[@dannotary951]

Biden is for the Italians

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

We proud ITALIANS LEARNED ENGLISH. NO NEED FOR TWO LANGUAGES. ITALIAN PROUD YOU HEARCTHAT BIDEN

[@maggielandow2686]

Yes my Italian Grandparents did not get help from government nor did the expect any. They lived a hard life but survived andhad 3 children. My mother was one.