Lower East Side Tenement Museum Virtual Tour: The Baldizzi Family (via Zoom)

Program Type:

Education

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

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The Baldizzi virtual tour features the story of an Italian American family from Sicily who lived in an Orchard Street tenement in Manhattan in the 1930s. Learn about the push and pull factors of the family's immigration, the nativistic 1924 immigration law that created obstacles for their journey to the United States, and their economic hardships during the Great Depression. Registration is underway.