Cornell University. Cornell Migrant Program
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cornell Migrant Program campus collection
Collection
Identifier: 23-13-3582
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, research studies, publicity, slides, tapes, 40 oral histories (conducted by Neil Schwartzbach of the Community and Rural Development Institute), and subject files documenting the Cornell campus migrant program and other farmworker-oriented organizations, not generally available from other sources.
Dates:
1953-2007.
Cornell Migrant Program records
Collection — Box 45: [Barcode: 31924093405888]
Identifier: 23-13-3160
Abstract
In 1979 the program was transferred to the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and renamed the Cornell Migrant Program. Engman became the director and Kay Embrey became the Wayne County office director in 1980. Kathy (Fox) Castania was hired in 1981 and she and Embrey founded the Wayne Action for Racial Equality. For the first years of the program all funding was provided by the College of Agriculture and Cornell Cooperative Extension. By the mid 1970's, grant money was being...
Dates:
1953-2005.
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- Labor camps -- New York (State). 1
- Oral histories. 1
- Photographs. 1
- Videotapes. 1