“The High Tide of Immigration – A National Menace”

1907
The Immigrant Experience

City of Immigrants

1907: The Immigrant Experience

City of Immigrants

Estimated time: 1-1.5 hours

In “City of Immigrants,” players navigate New York’s Lower East Side as Lena, a young Jewish immigrant from Russia. Trying to save money to bring her parents to America, she works long hours in a factory for little money and gets caught up in the growing labor movement.

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