Immigration Stories From Hull House & Chicago

Stories are powerful tools for informing and educating. At this virtual meeting of the Chicago WILPF Branch, we’ll be lifting up stories of past immigrants to Chicago and more recent arrivals too.

We’ll hear about an early proponent of peaceful conflict resolution among Chicago's Greek Community, Evangelos Diamontitas. His struggles to maintain and nurture peace in a warrior Greek diaspora culture will be presented, along with the stories of other Greek immigrants to Chicago. Early Greek immigrants were still fighting the Balkan Wars but forced to live close by long term tribal and cultural ‘enemies’. Diamontitas courageously and effectively won hearts and minds for peace and community-building.

The Little Theatre at Hull-House’s performance tour of Euripides' peace-centered play ‘The Trojan Women’. For decades the classic Greek plays were used at Hull-House, and as part of a national tour, to break down prejudice against "New Immigrants" from Eastern and Southern Europe, including Jewish…