The Other Immigrant Author:Thomas E. Hill This book is dedicated to all of the early immigrants who traveled to new and sometimes hostile lands in search of ethnic and religious freedoms. To those brave souls who may, or may not have witnessed the Statue of Liberty, with arm extended in greeting to all fleeing the remnants of medieval serfdom. And, to those brave souls who may, or ma... more »y not have encountered political bigotry as they fled the shadow of the agrarian serfdom of Dixie. This generation of Americans stands eternally grateful for the contributions of these industrious and pioneering immigrants. As racial anarchy existed throughout the better part of our nation during the early nineteenth century, I find that individual African American family stories of prejudice are not unique in themselves, but are the shared episodes of a collective African American history. This story of the city of Cleveland, Ohio can readily be duplicated in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia,Washington DC, New York or any urban community that was molded from the immigration of African American citizens at the beginning of the twentieth century. I write about the Cleveland diaspora only as a representation of the whole.« less