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Identifier	clloy_221
Title	[Memo extolling the work of Brownson Settlement House, November 22, 1919]
Creator	Unknown
Date Created	1919 November 22
Description	A typewritten memo extolling the work of Brownson Settlement House by summarizing the collective, positive feelings of past residents shared through letters and stories. Also iterates Brownson House's widespread reputation as a friendly support for newly arrived Mexican immigrants.
Historical Background	Born into a politically prominent Los Angeles family, Mary Julia Workman founded the Brownson House Settlement Association in 1901 and led it for 19 years. The Brownson House assisted underprivileged and immigrant families in the city, providing them with educational, vocational and social programs such as student clubs, Sunday school, dances, and sporting events. Brownson House was originally located in a rented cottage on Aliso St., but moved to a new facility on Jackson St. in late 1904 or early 1905.
Type	text
Physical Description	1 leaf ; 26 cm
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Collection Identifier	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8870232n
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	Public Domain
Copyright Statement	Materials in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Language	eng
Subject (Name)	Brownson House (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Settlement houses--California--Los Angeles; Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--California--Los Angeles; Immigrant families--Cultural assimilation--California--Los Angeles; Social settlements--California--Los Angeles; Catholic action--California--Los Angeles; Public service organizations--California--Los Angeles;
Form/Genre	Manuscripts;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	Workman Family Papers CSLA-9, Series 2: Margaret Workman, Box 20, Folder 15
Transcription	Brownson House, November 22,[strikethrough: 9]1919. "Well, this is real work in Americanization" was the remark made by a visitor who, as she passed through the different departments of the Brownson Settlement House last week, acknowledged that she h[strikethrough: h]ad no idea of the kind of work which this settlement house has been doing. That Brownson House has succeeded in listening to the beating hearts of a foreign people during the past years and with close attention has tried to provide correct[strikethrough: s] channels for their repressed emotions can best be understood not from the activities which are in operation at present but from letters which come from boys and girls who grew up in the playground, from the tongues of mothers who shake their heads and draw deep sigs of relief when they tell you how they remember with joy the days when Antonio and Juanita used to help at Brownson,and when the young men themselves from over the seas come back to dance again and spend a social evening with the workers,recounting pleasant in-cidents of some such social event of years ago at Brownson House. These are the heart to heart touches that this settlement house exper-iences as it widens its work long ago begun. These are the stories which are carried from Los Angeles to El Paso,-- the stories which today bring the Mex-ican family right from the early morning train to the settlement house door. You are the friend waiting for me in Los Angeles is the sentiment which the expressions of face and manner show as they grip the hands of the workers and afterwards ask them for guidance as to where they shall rent a house. And Brownson House is their friend,---it is willing that they should be Mexicans,and with this feeling strongly impressed and felt it soon awakens a kindred feeling in teir hearts--the feeling that they are willing to become like the good Americans.