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 2008
Interview No. 1598, Felipe Pavon Munoz
Interview no. 1444, Delfino Alfredo Muñoz Pacheco
Interview no. 1359, Margarita Murillo
Interview no. 1358, Valentín Murillo Ortiz
Interview No. 1457, Custodio Navarrete Cárdenas
Interview no. 1445, Roman Olivares Hernandez
Interview no. 1360, Antonio Olivares Samaniego
Interview no. 1363, Manuel Ortiz Orozco
Interview no. 1361, Aristeo Ortega Acuña
Interview no. 1362, Eva R. Ortiz
Interview no. 1364, Jorge Ortiz Marquez
Interview no. 1365, Efrén Pacheco A.
Interview no. 1446, Manuel Pacheco Galan
Interview no. 1447, Rosalío Padilla Barajas
Interview No. 1594, Juanita Parra
Interview no. 1366, Antonio H. Pérez Herrera
Interview no. 1448, Isidro de Jesus Perez Ramos
Interview no. 1449, Delfina Perez Reyes
Interview no. 1417, Samuel Pérez
Interview no. 1367, Ana María Perla
Interview no. 1368, Lorenzo Perla
Interview No. 1561, Arnulfo Pompa
Interview No. 1596, Elio J. Pompa
Interview No. 1595, Delia A. Pompa Nunez
Interview No. 1658, Maria Andres Ramires
Interview no. 1369, Alfonso Ramirez
Interview no. 1450, Onesimo Santiago Ramos Escobar
Interview no. 1451, Gabriel Ramos Ibañez
Interview No. 1593, Max Render
Interview no. 1452, Gustavo Eloy Reyes Rodríguez
Interview no. 1418, Porfirio Z. Rico
Interview no. 1370, Jaime Rivas
Interview no. 1371, Lauro Rivas
Interview no. 1380, Cecilio V. Rodriguez
Interview no. 1372, Nicolás Rodríguez
Interview No. 1600, Agustin Diaz Roldan
Interview no. 1374, Claro Ruiz Ortíz
Interview no. 1375, Francisco Sáenz
Interview no. 1453, María Guadalupe Salcedo Gudiño
Interview no. 1420, Eduardo Saldaña
Interview No. 1587, Armando F. Salinas
Interview no. 1458, Eusebio Sanchez Lara
Interview no. 1377, Petra Sanchez
Interview no. 1454, Antonio Sierra García
Interview no. 1455, Orfa Noemí Soberanis González
Interview no. 1421, Ramiro Solis
Interview No. 1590, Don Stallings
Interview No. 1589, Bill Stone
Interview no. 1378, Pedro Torres
Interview no. 1379, Francisco Uribe Ramos