Tolerated
but Never Accepted: Polish American Officials of Michigan
Traditional Polish offering of flowers to a guest: Gail Kobe
(8720 Lumpkin;
later an actress) presenting flowers to Ewa Curie, daughter
of Madame Marie
Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) in her appearance in Detroit,
1939 while Chester
Kozdroj, president of the Polish Central Citizens
Committee; Hedwiga
Gibasiewicz, vice-president; and unidentified lady lookon.
Table of
Contents
Ch
1 Preface (Why book,
ChA)
Ch
2 Introducing America to Poland
Ch
3 Some Polish Contributions to the Building of America
Ch1A
Ch
4 Polish Priorities and Inhibitions Combine with Anglo-Saxon Restraints
Ch
5 Polonia’s First Political Participation: Socialism
Ch 6
Polonia's Political Involvement at the National
Level
Ch
7 Polonia's Political Involvement at the National Level, part
II
Ch
8 Serca of Polonia: Detroit
1856-1900
Ch
9 The Serca of Polonia: Detroit
1900-30
Ch
10 Detroit, 1941
Ch
11 Congress Domesticates Ethnics,
1925-1950
Ch
12 Congress Domesticates Ethnics,
1952-Present
Ch 13
Only Good Enough for Lieutenant Governor & Auditor
General
Ch
14 Never Good Enough for
Governor
Ch
15 “$3.00 per Day and All You Can Steal:”
Michigan Legislature
Ch
16 Depression Allows Polish American
Participation, 1932
Ch
17 Legislature, 1960 to
present
Ch
18 Travesty of Justice: Polish Americans Running for Judicial Office,
1935
Ch 19 "Judges are Sui Generis"
Ch 20 CONstitutional CONvention, 1961-1962
Ch 21 Polonia in Michigan's 82 Counties
Ch 22 Never a Prosecuting Attorney in Wayne County; Black Legion
Ch 23 Suburbia: Escape from Polish Ghetto
Ch 24 Epilogue
Appendix A
Biographies of Major Officials or Major Politicians
Appendix
B Biographies of Minor
Officials
Appendix
C Biographies of Slavic Officials but
not either Polish
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