Edith Terry Bremer

Overview

Edith Terry Bremer born Hamilton, NY October 9, 1885 (d. 1964). Immigration expert; founded International Institute, a movement for cultural pluralism with efforts towards protection of immigrant girls, 1910. (photo Quillen's Cues to Community Organizing)

Quotations

On the Americanization Movement: “There was ignorance in it; there was the arrogant assumption that everything American was intrinsically superior to anything foreign. There was fear in it. There were the germs of hate in it. None of these things make for anything but a sharp division, a deeper separation between peoples.” (C. Ullman, “The Connections among Immigration, Nation Building”, Adult Learning, 2010, p. 6, in arbrown.wordpress.com; photo facebook.com)