Brown, Robert E.
Southbridge (Mass.) Ethnic Group Oral Histories, ca. 19751 box (0.5 linear feet).
Transcripts of oral histories and profiles of families who participated in Robert Brown’s study of ethnic families in Southbridge, Massachusetts, during the 1970s. Brown conducted interviews of families of various ethnic backgrounds — Albanian, Greek, Polish, Italian, Puerto Rican, and Southbridge’s only Black family — and published stories about these families in local newspapers. Brown eventually collected the stories and published them in a book entitled The New New Englanders (1980), which examined the essence of ethnicity in a typical industrial town in America during the latter part of the 20th century.
Subjects
- Immigrants--Massachusetts.
- Southbridge (Mass.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Brown, Robert E.
- Oral histories.
Call no.: MS 029
