Immigrants -- United States
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri
Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on November 2, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Allegri immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her family in 1949, when she was a year old, and later became an artist.
Oral history interview with Mark Bocek
Oral history interview with Mark Bocek conducted by Jim Strassmaier on April 21, 1979. Bocek immigrated to the United States from Poland and served in the U.S. Army. He played clarinet in the U.S. Army band while stationed in the Philippines from 1910 to 1912. He lived in Tillamook, Oregon, during the Tillamook Burn.
Oral history interview with Peter Magai Bul
Oral history interview with Peter Magai Bul conducted by Nancy E. Dollahite and Sankar Raman on November 26, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Bul discusses his experiences as one of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan.
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri conducted by Sankar Raman on March 19, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Chhetri grew up in a camp for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 2008.
Oral history interview with Kemle Fakhry
Oral history interview with Kemle Fakhry conducted by Don Schwartz on April 4, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Fakhry emigrated from Senegal to the United States in 2013.
Oral history interview with Maria Garcia
Oral history interview with Maria Garcia conducted by Maleya Luis on June 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Garcia immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s and became an American citizen in 2010. She opened Revolución Coffee House in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Anisha Ginshing
Oral history interview with Anisha Ginshing conducted by Sankar Raman on April 4, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Ginshing was a refugee from Bhutan and immigrated to the United States with her family in 2008.
Oral history interview with Fowzia Ibrahim
Oral history interview with Fowzia Ibrahim conducted by Don Schwartz on April 4, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Ibrahim, the daughter of Somali refugees in Kenya, immigrated to the United States with her family in 2004.
Oral history interview with Prashant Kakad
Oral history interview with Prashant Kakad conducted by Sankar Raman on July 20, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Kakad immigrated to the United States from India in 2003. He attended Cornell University, worked for Intel, and became a dance teacher and DJ in Oregon.
Oral history interview with Vera Katz
Oral history interview with Vera Katz conducted by Linda S. Dodds from April 28 to May 19, 1982. From 1973 to 1990, Katz served in the Oregon House of Representatives, and she became the first woman speaker of the house in 1985. She then served as Portland mayor from 1993 to 2005.