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The early struggle for #Lithuanians in America involved a move away from the #Polish community and toward the definition of a pure #Lithuanian national and ethnic identity
The earlier wave of #Guyanese immigrants encompassed the first two decades of the twentieth century, showing a steady increase in immigration until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
The department's U.S. Information Agency will award two highly qualified #Jordanian students money for advanced studies from the King Hussein Memorial Fulbright Scholarship Program
the emphasis on education was nowhere more apparent than in the refugees who arrived in the United States after 1945. Many of them were members of the educational and political elite of Estonia, and in the United States they pushed for their children to get a good education
The earliest documented #Bulgarian immigrants were converts to Protestantism, who arrived around the middle of the nineteenth century to pursue higher education in America
The Ecumenical Patriarch has the power to elect the archbishop and the bishops, directs all church matters outside the American church, and remains the guiding force in all matters of faith
The earliest #Bulgarian American political organizations grew out of social need. Groups of immigrants who hailed from the same village formed mutual benefit societies in which members pledged to support each other in times of financial hardship
The decade of the 1930s brought severe cutbacks in hiring in agriculture and other industries due to worldwide economic depression. High levels of unemployment nationwide made immigrant labor expendable.
The early #Latvian immigrants were usually young, single men, although some single women and families also came to the States at the end of the nineteenth century
The division between Orthodoxy and Byzantine Rite Catholicism in the European homeland has continued among #CarpathoRusyns and their descendants in the United States
The earliest known congregation, St. John's #Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church, was formed in 1893 in Philadelphia and continued to operate more than a century later.