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Both Sarah Hedlund, Archivist/Librarian for Montgomery History, and Maria Sprehn, PhD, Professor of Anthropology at Montgomery College, wrote the text and collaborated on compiling the collection of stories and images for this exhibit. Maria Sprehn conducted all the contemporary oral history interviews, collected most of the content and developed the exhibit themes. Sarah Hedlund designed the exhibit layout.
Both Sarah Hedlund, Archivist/Librarian for Montgomery History, and Maria Sprehn, PhD, Professor of Anthropology at Montgomery College, wrote the text and collaborated on compiling the collection of stories and images for this exhibit. Maria Sprehn conducted all the contemporary oral history interviews, collected most of the content and developed the exhibit themes. Sarah Hedlund designed the exhibit layout.
Research and transcription work provided by Montgomery College students and Anthropology Rookie Researchers: William Bouley, Marina Martins, Nance Mousa, Nina Saxenian, Maria Silva, Lexie Werner and Dan Yang. Additional research and transcription by Julie Kim and Claire McDonald. Carolina Galeano of MCTV contributed video segments. Andrew Koehler, Sorina Dodu and Renate Gravers translated foreign language text.
This site was first researched and created in 2022 and launched January 30, 2023. Copyright Montgomery History, all rights reserved.
Our deepest gratitude to all the people who shared their stories, memories, photographs, thoughts, financial support, and time with us to create this portrait of the immigrant experience:
Felicien Bidzimou Linda McKenna
Lynne Bulhack Wally Lee
Meris Chang Filippo Leo
Geraldina Dominguez Maria Helena Malagón
Saroj Ghoting Nalini Nadkarni
Juana Gonzalez Mohan Nadkarni
Mary Gallagher Rico Newman
Jennifer Haydel Reemberto Rodriguez
Samira Hussein Karla Silvestre
Lily Ing Anita Terauds
Will Jawando Michel Tinguiri
Bridget Korytnyk Carolyn Wright
Olena Korytnyk Teresa Wright
Peter Korytnyk Martins Zvaners
Art Ping Lee Rasma Zvaners
Felicien Bidzimou Linda McKenna
Lynne Bulhack Wally Lee
Meris Chang Filippo Leo
Geraldina Dominguez Maria Helena Malagón
Saroj Ghoting Nalini Nadkarni
Juana Gonzalez Mohan Nadkarni
Mary Gallagher Rico Newman
Jennifer Haydel Reemberto Rodriguez
Samira Hussein Karla Silvestre
Lily Ing Anita Terauds
Will Jawando Michel Tinguiri
Bridget Korytnyk Carolyn Wright
Olena Korytnyk Teresa Wright
Peter Korytnyk Martins Zvaners
Art Ping Lee Rasma Zvaners
Archival Collections
Archival Collections
Foley, John R. III. "Oral History of Sam Eig." Montgomery County Archives, Record Group 16: Oral Histories, 1972.
Anderson/Prout/Vinson Family Papers (Collection SC-F-00002). Series IV: Thomas M. Anderson and Berthy Girola, 1915-1981. Montgomery History: Jane C. Sween Research Library and Special Collections.
Ing, Robert. "A Brief Summary of the Z.T. Ing Family." Ing Family Archives, (undated).
Index Editors, "Index 1912" (1912). 1870-1920, No. 33. College of Wooster: Open Works. https://openworks.wooster.edu/index1870-1920/33/
Montgomery County Circuit Court: Naturalization Petitions, 1907-1991. Maryland State Archives, Series ID: T966. http://guide.msa.maryland.gov/pages/series.aspx?id=T966
Articles
Articles
"Anna May Ing's Bridal Planned for Next Week." Washington Post: June 8, 1938.
"Mrs. Z.T. Ing." New York Times: July 19, 1947.
"Latvian Who Fled Reds In Small Boat Is Citizen." Washington Post and Times Herald: September 21, 1955.
"Son Is Born To Charles Olsen And His French War Bride" Montgomery Independent Standard. 1946.
Armstrong, Phyllis. "Bites Nearby: Charm Seasons Specialties at Marchone's." Patch: January 23, 2013.
Accessed from: https://patch.com/maryland/silverspring/bites-nearby-charm-seasons-specialties-at-marchone-s
Bogen, David S. 2001. "Mathias de Sousa: Maryland's First Colonist of African Descent." Maryland Historical Magazine.
Cohen, Sonja J. "Dedicating their lives to children." UUWorld News, March/April 2004.
Accessed from https://www.uuworld.org/articles/dedicating-their-lives-children
Goldreich, Sonny. "Marchone’s Italian deli changes name to Filippo’s (not Felipe’s)." That's Silver Spring? October 19, 2014.
Accessed from: http://thatssilverspring.blogspot.com/2014/10/marchones-italian-deli-changes-name-to.html
Johnson, Hannah. "Silver Spring's Jewish History Long and Complicated." Washington Jewish Week, November 10, 2017. Accessed from https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/silver-springs-jewish-history-long-and-complicated/
Karidis, Arlene. "From Sicily to Wheaton: Immigrant traded Navy for suburban Deli." Frederick News-Post: November 23, 2003.
Miller, Hope Ridings. "Miss Anna May Ing's Wedding to Mr. Chang at Chinese Embassy Links East and West." Washington Post: June 16, 1938.
Oseland, James. "Lessons from a Muslim Mom." Rosie: February, 2002.
Rawlings, Irene. "Jose Andres and Food for All" Saturday Evening Post. November 17, 2022.
Robinson, Eugenia J. , Mary F. Gallagher, and James Sorensen. "Overview of Prehistoric Montgomery County." 2010.
Shere, Daniel. "5 Marks Jewish Developers Made on Montgomery County." Washington Jewish Week, July 20, 2017. Accessed from https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/5-marks-jewish-developers-made-on-montgomery-county/
The Maryland State Archives and the University of Maryland College Park. 2007. "A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland."
Books and Journals
Books and Journals
Bernstein, Hamutal. Stranger or Neighbor? Explaining Local Immigrant Policymaking in Washington, DC, and Madrid. Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University. 2011.
Bevis, Teresa and Christopher Lucas. International Students in American Colleges and Universities: A History. Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
Boyd, Thomas Hulings Stockton. The history of Montgomery County, Maryland, from its earliest settlement in 1650 to 1879. Clarksburgh: W. K. Boyle & son, 1879.
Brugger, Robert. Maryland: A Middle Temperment 1634-1980. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1988.
Cissna, Paul. The Piscataway Indians of Southern Maryland : an ethnohistory from pre-European contact to the present. Doctoral dissertation, American University. 1986.
Freidenberg, Judith. Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2016.
Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Viking, 2000.
Kelly, Clare Lise. Places from the Past: The Tradition of Gardez Bien in Montgomery County, Maryland. Silver Spring, Maryland: The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 2011.
Jawando, Will. My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2022.
Johnston, James H. Yarrow Mamout: From Slave Ship to Harvard. Fordham University Press: New York, 2012.
Lovato, Roberto. Unforgetting: a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas. New York, NY : Harper, 2020.
Marck, John T. Maryland: The Seventh State, A History. Second. Glen Arm, Maryland: Creative Impressions, Ltd., 1994.
Shukert, Elfrieda Berthiaume and Barbara Smith Scibetta, War Brides of World War II. California, Presidio Press. 1988.
Sprehn-Malagón, Maria, Jorge Hernandez-Fujigaki and Linda Robinson. Latinos in the Washington Metro Area. Arcadia Publishing, 2014.
Sween, Jane C. History of Dawsonville and Seneca, Montgomery County, Maryland. Unpublished manuscript available at Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, 1967 (rev. 1993).
Websites and Other Online Resources
Websites and Other Online Resources
Department of ESOL/Bilingual Programs, MCPS:
History of ESOL, 1967-1992.
Interfaith Community:
http://montgomerycountyinterfaithmd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/WNN-Booklet-2017-for-WEB.pdf
Japanese War Brides: An Oral History Archive:
https://www.warbrideproject.com/
Maryland State Arts Council:
Land Acknowledgements. https://msac.org/resources/land-acknowledgements
Montgomery College:
History in the Making: Documenting Stories of Immigrants and Refugees at Montgomery College. https://historyinthemaking.blog/
Montgomery County:
Sister Cities Program. https://www.montgomerysistercities.org/sistercities
Gilchrist Immigrant Resource Center. https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/gilchrist/
CASA in Maryland: https://wearecasa.org/maryland/
National Archives and Records Administration:
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act
National Museum of the American Indian:
Tayac, Gabrielle, and Edwin Schupman. 2006. We Have a Story to Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region. Washington, DC: Education Office of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
National Park Service:
African American Heritage and Ethnography https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/index.htm
Rice University:
Slave Voyages https://www.slavevoyages.org/
Sugarloaf Regional Trails:
"Native American Heritage Trail Guide." Heritage Montgomery, Maryland Heritage Area.
https://sugarloafregionaltrails.org/2016%20brochure/2016%20nativeamericanguide.pdf
UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency:
https://www.unrefugees.org/news/the-u-s-refugee-resettlement-program-explained/
United States Census Bureau:
History of the Questionnaires. https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/questionnaires/
Foreign-Born. https://www.census.gov/topics/population/foreign-born.html
Interviews
Interviews
Bidzimou, Felicien. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn, June 27, 2022; transcription by Julie Kim, December 2022. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Chang, Meris. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn, September 26, 2020; transcription by Maria Silva, July 2022. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Ghotang, Saroj and Mohan Nadkarni. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn, March 23, 2022; transcription by Nina Saxenian, July 2022. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Jawando, Will. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn, June 30, 2022; transcription by Marina Martins, July 2022. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Korytnyk, Olena. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn, June 28, 2022; transcription by Marina Martins, July 2022. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Lee, Art Ping and Wally Lee. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn and Dan Yang, January 23, 2018; transcription by Dan Yang and Wally Lee, January 2018. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Rodriguez, Reemberto and Geraldina Dominguez. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn and Carolina Galeano, March 24, 2023; transcription by William Bouley, April, 2023. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
Terauds, Anita. Interviewed by Maria Sprehn and Nance Mousa, October 4, 2017; transcription by Nance Mousa, November 2017. Montgomery History: Jane Sween Research Library and Special Collections, Rockville, MD.
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