Levi Strauss: The Jewish Immigrant Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World (On This Day in 1873)
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, this is the story of how one man got his American Dream stitched into a pair of blue jeans. Lynn Downey (Levi Strauss & Co. historian) is here to tell the story.
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