Past Event

Oral History of Union County Hispanic Farmworkers

Presentation of final reports for the Illinois Migrant Council’s Oral History of Union County Hispanic Farmworkers project. The project will document the transformation of the local agricultural workforce in Union County between 1970 and the present. Presenters will include Judy Travelstead of the Union County Historical Society, Jeri Kinser of Illinois Migrant Council, and Katherine Ward of Southern Illinois University.

Free and open to the public. For more information contact Jeri Kinser, Director of the Technology Learning Center, at 618-893-1922 or jerikinser@gmail.com.