Description
This collection contains audio interviews,
transcriptions, and related newspaper clippings of immigrant women in
Stockton.
Background
Sally Miller was a Professor of History at the University of the Pacific
in Stockton, California. She organized a conference and three seminars
concerning Stockton immigrant women in 1980-81. Miller had her students
interview sixty-five women of twenty-seven nationalities ranging in age from
twenty to ninety years old. Additional group interviews were conducted at the
conference in May 1981. Most of the women interviewed had come to the United
States between 1920 and 1950. They worked on farms, in canneries, as
dressmakers, as restaurant workers and as teachers. A summary of the Stockton
Immigrant Women project was published in The
Californians in 1986.
Restrictions
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
researcher.
Availability
Collection open for research.