Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Mary Antin
Born: June 13, 1881
Died: May 15, 1949 (aged 67)
Bio: Mary Antin was an American author and immigration rights activist. She is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, an account of her emigration and subsequent Americanization.
Known for:
- The Promised Land (1912)
- From Plotzk to Boston
- They who knock at our gates (1914)
- Selected letters of Mary Antin