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 2011
Interview no. 1475, Lorenzo Cano
Interview No. 1506, Francisco Escalera
Interview no. 1476, Raymundo González
Interview No. 1545, Rosa Martha Zarate
Submissions from 2010
Interview no. 1472, Maria Arreola Galvan
Interview no. 1336, Jose Bujanda
Interview No. 1597, Leticia Carabajal
Interview no. 1459, Jesus T. Castilleda
Interview no. 1465, Asención Flores
Interview no. 1473, Octaviano Galvan
Interview no. 1466, Antonio Garcia Delgado
Interview no. 1460, Ramon García
Interview no. 1467, Ramón Gil
Interview no. 1461, Marcelino Gonzalez D.
Interview no. 1468, Rafael Gonzalez M.
Interview no. 1474, Jesus J. Ibarra Huerta
Interview no. 1462, Fabian Landaverde S.
Interview no. 1469, Jose Mata Alvarez
Interview no. 1463, Juventino Muñoz P.
Interview no. 1464, Silbano Robledo
Interview no. 1470, Cipriano Romero
Interview no. 1438, Sebastián Ruíz Ávila
Interview no. 1471, José Tello
Submissions from 2009
Interview no. 1233, Antonio Nuño
Submissions from 2008
Interview No. 1591, Jonathan Abbot
Interview no. 1327, Ramona Acosta
Interview no. 1403, Encarnación Alamillo
Interview no. 1329, Cándido Alarcón
Interview no. 1330, José Natividad Alva Medina
Interview no. 1331, Bernabé Álvarez Díaz
Interview no. 1332, Horacio Andrejol Nogales
Interview no. 1404, Manuel Aparicio
Interview no. 1426, Antonio Aragón
Interview no. 1405, Enrique Arellano
Interview no. 1333, Sara Arrieta Hernández
Interview No. 1579, Sam Ashworth
Interview No. 1599, Dolores Atkins
Interview no. 1427, Alonso Ayala
Interview no. 1399, Rodolfo Balderrama
Interview no. 1335, Lucas Edmundo Benítez Cárdenas
Interview No. 1429, Audelia Bentura Cortéz
Interview No. 1602, Fred Bourland
Interview No. 1580, James Bourland
Interview no. 1430, Vicente Campos Cruz
Interview no. 1337, Natividad Cano
Interview no. 1406, María Carrillo
Interview no. 1428, Luis Barozio Ceja
Interview no. 1343, Pablo C. Flores
Interview No. 1601, Esteban Chavez
Interview no. 1407, Roberto Martínez Cordero