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Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans

Junior Americanization class, Portland, 1924

Junior Americanization class, Portland, 1924

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By the end of the 1920s, the Sunday Telegram had stopped covering the Americanization classes in such depth.

The program was dismantled in 1945, although the Evening School still offered English and citizenship classes.