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Eliminated by Technology

"It was really a grim reaper for jobs...sweeping away thousands at one time." https://youtu.be/IbKKKL2BH4M Edited by Welcome Project Intern Ella Speckhard Transcript for Eliminated by Technology First time I went in the steel mill was 1969. I came home from...
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The Patch

"Anybody who was not well-connected, you go to the Patch." https://youtu.be/ppzO37KeKCg Edited by Welcome Project Intern Ella Speckhard Transcript for The Patch My grandmother, my mother’s mother, was a twin. And they left Poland and they didn’t speak English. They...
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Fascinated by the Steelmills

"It was really something, it was kind of like the movies!" https://youtu.be/XoK_wLuWcDY Edited by Welcome Project Intern Ella Speckhard Transcript for Fascinated by the Steelmills When I was a kid, we heard the mills, we could see the sky light...
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In This Community

“If I wasn’t at home or at school, I was in East Chicago hanging out with my grandparents.” https://youtu.be/-GuAPV9Hy5Y Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. Transcript for In This Community My great-grandmother and her...
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Not Newcomers

“The Latinx communities have been instrumental both as workers, as community members, as beacons of cultural institutions.” https://youtu.be/e6MJyMrmovA Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University Transcript for Not Newcomers I think one of the most important things to know about...
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Pick Up That Slack

“The tradition of the mutual aid society dates all the way back to the earliest days of the Mexican colonies in Indiana Harbor and Gary, Indiana.” https://youtu.be/QH9lQD9OTSc Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University Transcript for Pick Up That Slack...
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Mexican Colonies

"You have a delightful mix of people starting over fresh and I think the notion was that, 'We are Mexican. We will always be Mexican first and maybe American second.'" https://youtu.be/Uq-zxxkV8m8 Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division,...
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Seeing Them Make Those Discoveries

"...because they don’t have access to the language like everybody else does. They don’t get that incidental learning from just overhearing something and pairing that to their experiences." Produced by Rich Elliott Transcript...
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Cuba: La Salida (Cuba: It Was Time To Leave)

"Nada más que he extrañado siempre a la familia." | "The only thing is, I have always missed my family." https://youtu.be/HxiYjFNQTas Mirtha Cuza | interviewed and produced by Melissa Avila Transcript for Cuba: La Salida | Cuba: It Was Time...
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