Lithuanians in Michigan

Marius K. Grazulis

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780870138133
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628951790
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

In Lithuanians in Michigan Marius Grazulis recounts the history of an immigrant group that has struggled to maintain its identity. Grazulis estimates that about 20 percent of the 1.6 million Lithuanians who immigrated to the United States arrived on American shores between 1860 and 1918.
     While first-wave immigrants stayed mostly on the east coast, by 1920 about one-third of newly immigrated Lithuanians lived in Michigan, working in heavy industry and mining.
     With remarkable detail, Grazulis traces the ways these groups have maintained their ethnic identity in Michigan in the face of changing demographics in their neighborhoods and changing interests among their children, along with the challenges posed by newly arriving "modern" Lithuanian immigrants, who did not read the same books, sing the same songs, celebrate the same holidays, or even speak the same language that previous waves of Lithuanian immigrants had preserved in America. Anyone interested in immigrant history will find Lithuanians in Michigan simultaneously familiar, fascinating, and moving.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• DISCOVERING THE PEOPLES OF MICHIGAN
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Lithuanian History as a Background to Immigration
• The First and Second ullaues of Lithuanians in Michigan
• Religion and Culture in the first and Second ullaues
• Lithuanians and Sports
• The Third and Fourth ullaues of Lithuanian Immigration to Michigan
• Politics
• The fourth ullaue
• The Fifth ullaue of Immigration and Today
• The Union Pier Experience
• The future of Lithuanians in Michigan
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1 - Lithuanian Recipes
• Appendix 2 - Lithuanian Organizations
• Notes
• for further Reference