Lithuanian Fraternalism: 75 Years of U.S. Knights of Lithuania

Description

Contents:

1. A Layman’s Initiative
2. Religion, Ethnicity, and Interethnicity
3. The Knights and World War I
4. The Impact of Lithuania on the Knights
5. The Homeland: Restoring and Rebuilding
6. Organizational Growing Pains
7. Challenges and Problems
8. Assimilation: Foe or Friend?
9. Setback of Adolescence: 1920-1940s
10. Lithuanian: To Speak and Write or Not to Speak and Write?
11. The Knights During World War II and Its Aftermath
12. The Knights and Post- World War II Arrivals
13. Finances, The Vytis, and Conventions
14. Norkunas’ Final Years
15. Cultural Goals and Dreams
16. Lithuanians or Lithuanian-Americans?