Carmen Cook Oral History Interview

American Steel, Cinco de Mayo, Granite City, immigration, Lincoln Place, medical, sports

Cook, Carmen, “Carmen Cook Oral History Interview,” Madison Historical, accessed July 1, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/841.

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This oral history interview with Carmen Cook was part of oral histories conducted in the fall 2001 semester of History 447: Oral History.

Carmen Cook was born at Lincoln Place in 1943, where she spent most of her life, to Mexican immigrant parents. In this interview, she talks about her childhood and life, the ethnic diversity of the community, the Cinco de Mayo celebrations, the legacy of Ruben Mendoza (the Olympic soccer player), and the scholarship that was set-up in the name of Joe Gonzalez.

• Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections

Fall 2001 Granite City Oral History Interviews

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City

Cook, Carmen

November 18, 2001

• Granite City
• Lincoln Place

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 00:33:31

Bilodeau, Leslie

Cook, Carmen

Lincoln Place, Granite City, Illinois

248 kbit/s

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City, Illinois

• Cook-Carmen-O-001
• Original archive accession number: A02:43