Title: Kolma “Sam” Ewu, Meatpacking Plant Worker. Beardstown, Illinois
Speakers: Kolma “Sam” Ewu, John McKerley, Nancy Groce
Series: America Works
Date: March 10, 2022
Running Time: 10:31 minutes
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Description:
West African immigrant Komla Ewu tells oral historian John McKerley about how he left a prestigious but unprofitable teaching career in his native Togo to pursue the American dream. He talks about how he raised the funds needed to pay his way to the U.S., how he found work on the “picnic line” in a giant Midwestern meatpacking plant – (one of America’s most grueling jobs)—and how grateful he is to be an American worker.
