Community Voices: Postville Project Oral Histories
Keywords
Peck, Dona--Interviews; Postville Immigration Raid, Postville, Iowa, 2008; Church and social problems;
Genre
Oral History
Interview Description
Dona Peck was born and raised in Postville, Iowa. She experienced life in a small town and has observed all the changes that have come to Postville through the years. Dona grew up attending the Presbyterian Church in Postville and has spent a lot of her retirement participating in church events and volunteering through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. Dona also volunteers at the local Food Pantry. Like many in the community, after the May 12th, 2008 ICE raid on Agriprocessors, Dona spent time helping out at the Presbyterian Church. In the interview, Dona recounts her experience of witnessing the trauma of the event and the fear that remained in the community during the following days. In the interview, Dona also comments on the changes that occurred in Postville after the raid and the media’s portrayal of Postville.
Interview Number
11
Interview Date
10-27-2014
File Format
audio/mp3
Disciplines
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | United States History
Project Title
Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project
Project Description
The Community Voices: Postville Oral History Project sought to capture the remembered past of those who experienced the “Postville story,” that is, the social context leading up to, including, and following the ICE immigration raid that occurred on May 12th, 2008. The Interviews available here showcase the unique memories of 16 interviewees living and working in or near Postville. The interviews will leave listeners with a sense of how a small town in rural Iowa has dealt with and continues to deal with vast demographic change and the aftermath of an ICE raid that threw Postville into the national conversation on immigration reform.
Publisher
Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2014 The Postville Project
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Peck, Dona, "Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project Recording with Dona Peck" (2014). Community Voices: Postville Project Oral Histories. 12.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/12
Project Title
Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project
Project Description
The Community Voices: Postville Oral History Project sought to capture the remembered past of those who experienced the “Postville story,” that is, the social context leading up to, including, and following the ICE immigration raid that occurred on May 12th, 2008. The Interviews available here showcase the unique memories of 16 interviewees living and working in or near Postville. The interviews will leave listeners with a sense of how a small town in rural Iowa has dealt with and continues to deal with vast demographic change and the aftermath of an ICE raid that threw Postville into the national conversation on immigration reform.
Comments
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Interview Conducted by RaeAnn Swanson-Evans
Interview Transcribed by RaeAnn Swanson-Evans