ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The Cornell Migrant Program Campus Collection adds to the existing
Cornell Migrant Program Records (#23-13-3160) which documented the Wayne
County, NY office of the Cornell Migrant Program. The Cornell Migrant Program
was established in 1971 after a period of intense pro-farmworker advocacy by
students and outside forces. Cornell had maintained a migrant labor camp in
Wayne County, but bulldozed it to the ground in an attempt to quell the
controversy. The Wayne County office was the center of activity for the program
throughout its history, expanding gradually from a county-based effort to a
state-wide one, closing in 2004 after Cornell's decision to move the farmworker
program from the College of Human Ecology to the College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences.
