The Bracero History Archive is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, ended more than four decades ago. Current debates about immigration policy-including discussions about a new guest worker program-have put the program back in the news and made it all the more important to understand this chapter of American history. This cooperative project sought to record the recollections of those involved in the program.
Submissions from 2003
Interview no. 982, Ignacio Nájera
Interview No. 1549, Carroll (Kelly) Norquest Jr.
Interview no. 981, Guadalupe Nuñez
Interview no. 983, Roberto Orduño García
Interview no. 1054, Miguel Ortega
Interview No. 1563, Pedro A. Ortega M.D.
Interview no. 1061, Jose Isabel Ortiz Hinojosa
Interview no. 1062, Ceferino Palomares
Interview no. 984, José Parra
Interview no. 1015, Ignacio Pérez García
Interview no. 985, Refugio Pérez Lolla
Interview No. 1564, Socorro Perez
Interview no. 986, Roberto Ponce Covarrubias
Interview no. 1261, Jesús Ponce de León
Interview no. 1119, Anónimo por petición
Interview No. 1565, Bob Porter
Interview no. 988, Andrés Héctor Quezada Lara
Interview no. 1056, José Ramírez Solano
Interview no. 1547, Laurentina Ramos Juarez
Interview No. 1567, Ray Reaves
Interview No. 1568, Cora C. Reyes
Interview No. 1566, Herminia Reza Contreras
Interview No. 1569, Inez Rios
Interview no. 1138, Fernando Rodríguez
Interview no. 989, Jesús Rodríguez Méndez
Interview no. 1016, Jesús Rosales Ríos
Interview no. 1017, Alejandro Ruteaga Rivas
Interview no. 1018, Mauricio Salcido Hernández
Interview no. 1019, David Salcido Martínez
Interview no. 1139, Esteban Saldaña
Interview no. 1140, Carlos Sánchez Montoya
Interview No. 1570, Sam Sanchez
Interview no. 1020, Jesús Sierra Espinoza
Interview no. 1141, Emilio Solís Pallares
Interview no. 1021, Gonzalo Soto Núñez
Interview no. 1022, Cornelio Soto Ramírez
Interview No. 1571, Faye Terrazas
Interview No. 1572, John Tomlin
Interview No. 1550, Aida B. Torres and Tula B. Sanchez
Interview no. 1063, Juan Torres Briones
Interview no. 1023, Enrique Torres Sánchez
Interview no. 1142, Gregorio Trejo
Interview no. 1057, Bernardo Treviño Cervantes
Interview no. 1064, Cayetano Vasquez G.
Interview no. 1143, Manuel Vazquez
Interview no. 1024, Alonso Venegas Batres
Interview no. 1058, J. Guadalupe Verdín Arriaga
Interview No. 1573, George Veytia
Interview no. 1025, José Isidro Vidaña Canales
Interview No. 1574, Raymundo Villa