JOYCE GORSHE PLEMEL and FLORENCE UNETICH – Cleveland, Ohio

 
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This conversation is about growing up in the Slovenian community in Cleveland in the 1920s, the founding of the Progressive Slovenian Women of America in 1934 (the organization ceased to exist in 2004), and the controversial reactions to Louis Adamic's book The Native's Return.

Engaged in this conversation are Joyce Gorshe Plemel, Florence Unetich – a long-standing president of the Progressive Slovenian Women of America – and Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik.

The conversation was recorded at Ms Joyce G. Plemel’s home in 2002.

Recorded and prepared for this publication by Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, PhD

Photos by Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik and Joe Valenčič

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Joyce Gorshe Plemel in front of her father's portrait (by Božidar Jakac) in 2002

 

Florence Unetich in her garden in 2002

 

Editorial team of Enakopravnost in the 1920s

 

Cleveland in 1941

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The seat of the Ameriška domovina / American Home

 

Slovenian Workmen's Home

 

Slovenian National Home at St. Claire Avenue in 2008

 

Slovenian National Home (postcard)

 

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