Hungarian Immigration to Cleveland, Ohio: a Microcosm of the U.S. Immigration Experience
Description
This exhibit contains the story of Hungarian Immigration patterns to Cleveland, Ohio. The story of Hungarian immigration, and the "waves" in which the immigration took place, is a small but representative sample of immigration patterns of peoples to the United States.
Credits
Jeff Kho
Sections
Introduction to, and reasons for, immigration.
This section is about economic reasons for immigration, as exemplified by the Hungarian-Cleveland community, and how the Hungarian community developed its permanancy after a long period of transiency.
This section describes how the success of some individuals lead to the expansion of immigration.
This section contains the stories of post-WWII Hungarina immigrants, many of whome were "displaced persons."
This section is the story of the post 1956 communist revolution Hungarian immigrants who came to Cleveland.
This section talks about what happened to the Hungarians of Buckeye Road, and how immigrants get "absorbed" into mainstream America.