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Wkład Wielkopolan w edukację ludności górnośląskiej w XIX i XX stuleciu

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For the history of development of the Polish movement in Upper Silesia, the aid which inhabitants of Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) extended to Upper Silesians, beginning with the mid-19th century until the Interwar period, was of great import_ance. The former, coming from the lower middle-class (petit bourgeois) and intelligentsia backgrounds, got interested in Silesia in the time of the Spring of Nations. In the second half of the 19th century, their support for Silesia became strengthened, sińce they began settling down in this region. They arrived in this Province to take professional work and carry out nationalistic activity among the population living here. Their cooperation was realized by means of Polish organizations and institutions functioning on the former Poland's territory remaining under the Prussian partition, that is Towarzystwo Czytelni Ludowych [Society of Folk Libraries], Towarzystwo Gimnastyczne „Sokół"[Gymnastics Society "Falcon"] or the singing movement. They enriched greatly both the forms and the content of the cultural life, which influenced its dynamie development, stimulating formation of Polish national tradition.