Linda Garcia Oral History Interview

American Steel, Granite City, immigration, Lincoln Place, Mexico, World War II

Garcia, Linda, “Linda Garcia Oral History Interview,” Madison Historical, accessed July 16, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/854.

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This oral history interview with Linda Garcia was part of oral histories conducted in the fall 2001 semester of History 447: Oral History

Though Linda Garcia was born in St. Louis, she only lived there for three years and spent the rest of her life in Lincoln Place. In this interview, she describes her childhood, the diversity of the community, the different jobs her and her sisters had to do to help her widowed mom, her Mexican heritage, and religious experiences.

• Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections

Fall 2001 Granite City Oral History Interviews

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City

Garcia, Linda

October 31, 2001

• Granite City
• Lincoln Place

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 00:41:54

Coffin, Emily

Garcia, Linda Hernandez

Lincoln Place, Granite City, Illinois

241 kbit/s, 243 kbit/s

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City

• Garcia_Linda-0-001
• Original archive accession number: A02:43