Concettina Died and Other Stories of the East Side

Beginning a New Life: Corrado LoBasso

Episode Summary

1920. A teenage boy enters the United States on his cousin's passport.

Episode Notes

"My father’s cousin, Antonio Zaza, was physically unable to make the journey. But a passport had already been paid for and money had been set aside for the voyage. So it was decided that someone was going to use this passage to America to start supporting the family back in Molfetta, Italy."

Corrado set himself to work, took advantage of an immigration amnesty, and build an American life.