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What was a “Block Matron”?

Murphy

Posted 10 September 2005 - 07:21 PM

What was a Block Matron?

Posted 10 October 2008 - 07:25 PM

A "Block Matron" was to befriend immigrant women to assist in Americanization, but also to keep the families together. The English langauge was to build "a common language, a common purpose, a common set of values--a united America."
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