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Mary Antin Writer

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Jun 13, 1881
  • Died: May 15, 1949

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.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.