CCALC - The 1948 Letters to Italy Campaign, An Interesting Chapter in Italian American History

In Connecticut, local political leaders, Italian civic organizations, and clergy from the Catholic Church worked together on this letter writing campaign. In Hartford, Italian Americans sent over 250,000 letters to their friends and relatives in Italy.

This talk will investigate this letter writing campaign and will also show that in Connecticut, as well as many other places in the United States, Italian Americans used this campaign to show their fellow citizens that they were good Americans and supported democratic ideas. 

The talk will show how the letter writing campaign was started and how it was a contributing factor in bringing about the defeat of the Popular Front in the Italian elections of 1948.