Immigration debate was resonant in 1920s Pasadena

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From: Pasadena Star-News
Date: 20070617
Author:Sid Gally

PASADENA - Immigration was in the news in 1926 as it is today.

The Pasadena Star-News announced March 4 that the famous writer and lecturer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, would be returning to Pasadena to address the Pasadena Lecture Course in Culbertson Hall at Caltech. Her lecture was titled, "Americans and Non-Americans."

The article said that "Mrs. Gilman is already well-known in Pasadena and she herself recalls with pleasure that it was in this city, then a peaceful little village, that she first appeared on the lecture platform in the '90s."

Also in Pasadena she wrote her first poems as ...

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