Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.
Title
Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.
Description
The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem House, just founded by Anna C. Ruddy in 1908, at that time called Home Garden, and later LaGuardia House. Home Garden was an important center of sociocultural activities in Italian East Harlem and a hub of prominent political personalities, among them Judge Salvatore Cotillo and Congressmen Vito Marcantonio and Fiorello La Guardia.
Corsi personally knew the people and the problems of East Harlem, and later described his experiences there as an actual turning point his life. He became director of Home Garden, from 1926-1931. When the Republican Herbert Hoover became president of the U.S., the Republican Corsi became Commissioner of Emigration, for two years, from 1931 to 1933. The next year he went on to direct the Home Relief Bureau, until 1935. In that year, he published In the Shadow of Liberty, and founded La Settimana, a bilingual newspaper publishing correspondence from the most influential Italian journalists in America, such as Amerigo Ruggiero of La Stampa (q.v. his Italiani in America), and Alfonso Arbib-Costa, as well as prominent exponents of Italian American culture such as Angelo Patri.
He was until the 1920s a correspondent for Il Carroccio but also the politically quite opposite La Follia di New York, as well as (later, in the 1950s) Divagando and others. The texts of his radio broadcasts treating themes on Italian and American history and culture were published successively in La Follia and ultimately collected in the volume, Edoardo Corsi Parla (1942). His work for the Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati is typical of the work in whose importance this lawyer and public servant believed.
From 1943 to 1954, he was head of the New York State Industrial Board, and later, became special assitant for immigration in the Eisenhower administration. Giuseppe Prezzolini translated and published in Omnibus and then in Oggi, two passages from In the Shadow of Liberty. An excerpt from the latter appears in Durante.
This volume was printed by Cocce Press, which besides having its own imprint, was a "jobber" for printing for others, like the Comitato.
Corsi personally knew the people and the problems of East Harlem, and later described his experiences there as an actual turning point his life. He became director of Home Garden, from 1926-1931. When the Republican Herbert Hoover became president of the U.S., the Republican Corsi became Commissioner of Emigration, for two years, from 1931 to 1933. The next year he went on to direct the Home Relief Bureau, until 1935. In that year, he published In the Shadow of Liberty, and founded La Settimana, a bilingual newspaper publishing correspondence from the most influential Italian journalists in America, such as Amerigo Ruggiero of La Stampa (q.v. his Italiani in America), and Alfonso Arbib-Costa, as well as prominent exponents of Italian American culture such as Angelo Patri.
He was until the 1920s a correspondent for Il Carroccio but also the politically quite opposite La Follia di New York, as well as (later, in the 1950s) Divagando and others. The texts of his radio broadcasts treating themes on Italian and American history and culture were published successively in La Follia and ultimately collected in the volume, Edoardo Corsi Parla (1942). His work for the Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati is typical of the work in whose importance this lawyer and public servant believed.
From 1943 to 1954, he was head of the New York State Industrial Board, and later, became special assitant for immigration in the Eisenhower administration. Giuseppe Prezzolini translated and published in Omnibus and then in Oggi, two passages from In the Shadow of Liberty. An excerpt from the latter appears in Durante.
This volume was printed by Cocce Press, which besides having its own imprint, was a "jobber" for printing for others, like the Comitato.
Creator
Edward Corsi [pref.]
Publisher
Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati
Date
1940
Format
22.5 x 15.5cm; 47 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Edward Corsi [pref.], “Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 18, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/57.
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