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.

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Submissions from 2008

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Interview no. 1408, Celedonia Corral

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Interview no. 1409, Erasmo Corral

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Interview no. 1410, Rafael Cortez

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Interview no. 1431, Santos Cruz Hernández

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Interview no. 1339, Gregorio de la Cruz

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Interview no. 1376, María de la Luz Saenz

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Interview no. 1432, Tiburcio Delgado Garfia

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Interview no. 1419, María de los Ángeles Luna de Robles

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Interview no. 1433, Imelda Díaz Pacheco

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Interview no. 1340, Catalino Díaz Villa

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Interview no. 1434, Pedro Domínguez Castillo

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Interview no. 1411, Guadalupe Durán

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Interview no. 1435, Clara Eligio Tenorio

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Interview no. 1341, Eberto Enríquez

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Interview no. 1328, José Esequiel Adame

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Interview no. 1436, Félix Flores Juan

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Interview no. 1100, Margarita Flores

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Interview no. 1346, Francisco Gallardo González

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Interview no. 1344, Jesús Gallegos

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Interview no. 1345, Jesús García Estrada

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Interview no. 1400, Ezequiel García

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Interview no. 1401, Porfirio B. García

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Interview no. 1412, Genaro Garza

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Interview no. 1416, Antonio Nuño Gonzáles

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Interview no. 1425, Santos Alejandro González

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Interview no. 1437, Nicolás Grimaldo Andrade

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Interview No. 1592, Marion Haynes

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Interview no. 1347, Alejandro Hernández

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Interview no. 1373, Alfonso Romero Hernández

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Interview no. 1402, Raúl Hernández

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Interview no. 1349, María Soledad Herrera de Reyes

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Interview no. 1348, Isidro Herrera Ortega

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Interview no. 1350, Selerina Landeros

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Interview no. 1351, Pedro L. Lechuga

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Interview No. 1581, Harrison Locke

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Interview no. 1352, Alfredo López

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Interview no. 1413, Juan Lupian

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Interview no. 1353, Venustiano Machado

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Interview no. 1414, Santa María Madera

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Interview no. 1440, Amelia Mandarín Ramos

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Interview no. 1355, Zenon Martínez Banda

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Interview no. 1439, Hilario Martínez Cortez

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Interview no. 1456, Julio Valentín May May

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Interview No. 1582, Sam McNeill

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Interview no. 1441, José Medina Torres

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Interview no. 1442, Roberto Meléndez López

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Interview no. 1342, Jose M. Espinoza

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Interview no. 1415, Daniel Molina

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Interview no. 1443, Salvador Morales Quiroz

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Interview no. 1357, Angel M. Moreno