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 2006
Interview no. 1161, Clemente Velazquez
Interview no. 1162, Pedro Velazquez L
Interview no. 1163, Apolonio Venegas
Interview no. 1256, Eulalio Verazas
Interview no. 1257, Jesus Villalba C.
Interview no. 1320, Juan Virgen Díaz
Submissions from 2005
Interview no. 1263, Roberto Almazar Valdivia
Interview no. 1264, Arturo Álvarez Padilla
Interview no. 1106, Juan Baez Barragán
Interview no. 1265, Francisca Barraza
Interview no. 1087, Filomeno Burciaga
Interview no. 1095, Hipólito Burrola Ruiz
Interview no. 1266, Primitivo Bustamante
Interview no. 1113, Raúl Canela
Interview no. 1115, María Cantor
Interview no. 1114, Pedro Cantor
Interview no. 1267, Artemio Cantú Benavides
Interview no. 1268, Martín Conejo
Interview no. 1097, José G. Corral
Interview no. 1104, Ma. Irma Davalos
Interview no. 1269, Vicente Delgado
Interview no. 1103, Pedro Del Real
Interview no. 1099, Eduardo De Santiago
Interview No. 1586, Fred DeYoung
Interview no. 1089, Ernesto Espino and Linda Espino
Interview no. 1270, María Félix Mota
Interview no. 1107, Faustina Flores
Interview no. 1108, Matilde Gallegos
Interview no. 1110, Justo G. Montes
Interview no. 1085, Antonio Góntiz
Interview no. 1271, Saturnino González Díaz
Interview no. 1111, Guadalupe Gonzalez
Interview No. 1575, Sally Gutierrez McQuinn
Interview no. 1272, Luis Guzmán
Interview no. 1105, Audmaro G. Zepeda
Interview no. 1101, J. Jesus Hernandez Medrano
Interview no. 1098, Refugio Hernández
Interview No. 1577, Dolores Huerta
Interview No. 1578, Andy Imutan
Interview no. 1086, Manuel Leal
Interview no. 1273, Juan Loza
Interview no. 1274, Gabriel Martínez Ángel
Interview no. 1090, Jesús Martínez
Interview No. 1576, Sebastian Martinez
Interview no. 1275, Guadalupe Mena Arizmendi
Interview no. 1112, Alberto Montes
Interview no. 1276, Aguileo Nambo
Interview no. 1102, Ismael Z. Nicolás Osorio
Interview no. 1277, Juana Ortíz Moreno Gómez
Interview no. 1278, Jesús Ortíz Torres