103 Orchard Street (History of New York's Immigrants)

This is a summary of (http://103orchard.tenement.org/stories/103-orchard/?_ga=2.95417944.575684299.1510051125-202175268.1510051125) Which I highly suggest going over and reading the web site.

The site is separated into 5 sections. Overview (103 Orchard Street), 1950s (Lower east side), 1960s (Loisaida), 1970s (Chinatown), and Your story (your objects).

 Overview (103 Orchard Street)

The first one gives you a quick summary, so I don't know why you’re reading this, but oh well.

1950s (Lower east side)

The second part talks about the life of Bella and her mom, there are some videos of Bella talking about here mom and how she was a Holocaust survivor, and because they were Jewish and highly prosecuted. But it wasn't all bad. 

She remembers her dad bringing back a portable record player and playing music of to hear Moishe Oysher and Josef “Yossele” Rosenblatt. She also remembers convincing her mother to buy her one record (Paul Anka), and she said after having that she became American.

She also remembers listing in the kitchen to Yiddish, Spanish, Italian, and English.

She also said that her mother would never talk about her time in concentration camps, except one day a lady saw them in a restaurant and talked to her mother and it turned out her mother was in charge of the children before they went to the gas chambers.

1960s (Loisaida)

This part talks about Andy and his family from Puerto Rico, he talks about how she would put beans in a little bit of water before they would leave school at around 6:45 and when they came back him and his brother would put the beans cooking at the lowest heat, and when they're mom came back at 5 the beans would be ready.

He remembers joining the Boy Scouts when he a very young boy, and when he was 15 he was able to get a prominent job in the Boy Scouts, he would also do lots of little jobs for people.

His mom also worked a lot he says, and she was a prominent member of a sewing union and whenever they did parades she would be in the front. When she came to America sewing was one of the few jobs where you didn't need to be skilled, but because she was Puerto Rican she was already highly skilled in sewing.

1970s (Chinatown)

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Hart-Celler immigration act, abolishing the race-based quota system of 1924. For the first time since 1882, significant numbers of Asian immigrants could enter the US.

This one fallows Allison Wong.

She talks about how there was a huge day care problem and how industry owners knew they needed to let the Chinese parents go pick up there children at three and give them a half hour to come back. 

Kattie Quang talks about how they held a news conference (for helping their petition that they were going to get signed to convince their union for child care) at their job, and she says it was very chaotic, every half a sentence the parents were yelling and the children to be calm (as children ran around yelling). She says that she thinks the reporters got the point from that.

Your story (your objects)

The last part is where you can add your parent's (or your/other family member's) story's of immigration.