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*The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland (1790 - '''Irish''') | *The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland (1790 - '''Irish''') | ||
*''La Société Française de Bienfaisance de Philadelphie, pour conseiller et secourir les Français'' (1791 - '''French''') | *''La Société Française de Bienfaisance de Philadelphie, pour conseiller et secourir les Français'' (1791 - '''French''') | ||
*The Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Emigrants and Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries (1793)<ref>Erna Risch, "Immigrant Aid Societies Before 1820," ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan. 1936):15-33. For free online access, see [http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Historical_Society_of_Pennsylvania._Pennsylvania_Magazine_of_History_and_Biography WeRelate].</ref> | *The German Lutheran Aid Society (1790 - '''German''') | ||
*The Philadelphia Society for the Information and Assistance of Emigrants and Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries (1793)<ref>Erna Risch, "Immigrant Aid Societies Before 1820," ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan. 1936):15-33; John G. Frank and John E. Pomfret, "The German Lutheran Aid Society of 1790," ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan. 1939):60-65. For free online access to both articles, see [http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Historical_Society_of_Pennsylvania._Pennsylvania_Magazine_of_History_and_Biography WeRelate].</ref> | |||
In the 1870s Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from '''southern and eastern Europe'''. These included Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks. During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, blacks from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. | In the 1870s Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from '''southern and eastern Europe'''. These included Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks. During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, blacks from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. | ||