The rantings of one editorial writer regarding the issue of assimilation:

“Why are tens of thousands of foreigners in ignorance of the privileges and obligations of American citizenship?… Where they are isolated in groups, left entirely to their own devices and not brought into contact with the life of the country, there is little opportunity for the melting pot to reach them.”


Read the films that were made in order to assimilate 1920s immigrants.

Read Americanizing the Immigrants<br>(American Legion Weekly, 1920) for Free

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