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. 1381, Ramón Valencia
Interview no. 1382, Alberto Valenzuela Gonzalez
Interview no. 1383, Jesus G. Varela
Interview no. 1384, Lucio Vargas
Interview no. 1385, Alberto Vásquez Rojas
Interview no. 1386, Jose S. Velazquez
Interview no. 1387, Julian Velazquez
Interview No. 1588, Wonda Lou Wonicar and Norma Emison
Interview no. 1422, Luis Zamudio
Interview no. 1423, Ben Zapata
Interview no. 1388, Maria Zarate
Interview no. 1424, Feliciano Zarupe
Interview no. 1354, Cuauhtémoc Z. Madrid
Submissions from 2007
Interview no. 1280, Librado Briceño Domínguez
Interview no. 1389, Felipe César Chan-noh
Interview no. 1281, Plutarco Chávez Ruiz
Interview no. 1390, Antonio Cisneros Piña
Interview no. 1391, Nicasio Cortinas Ortíz
Interview no. 1392, Alma Delia Fraile Barozio
Interview no. 1289, Lucina González Loza
Interview No. 1584, Ventura Gutierrez
Interview no. 1393, Ángel Guzmán Domínguez
Interview no. 1282, Dionisio Hernández Canchola
Interview no. 1283, Matiana Ibarra Quintana
Interview no. 1394, Félix Loera Carrillo
Interview no. 1285, María Concepción Loza-González
Interview no. 1284, Cayetano Loza Ornelas
Interview no. 1286, Beatriz Martínez Hernández
Interview no. 1395, Ofelia Morales
Interview no. 1287, Mercedes Pérez Salazar
Interview no. 1288, J. Carmen Quezada Morales
Interview no. 1396, Jesús Soberano Rodríguez
Interview no. 1397, Priciliano Suarez
Interview no. 1398, J. Jesus Villaseñor Santoyo
Submissions from 2006
Interview no. 1165, M. Belen Acevedo
Interview no. 1164, J. Ezequiel Acevedo Perez
Interview no. 1202, Jesus Aceves Gutierres
Interview no. 1185, Simón Acosta
Interview no. 1203, Jose Aguilar
Interview no. 1204, Juan Aguilar Lopes
Interview no. 1205, Agustín Alvarez
Interview no. 1069, Ignacio I. Álvarez
Interview no. 1079, Jose Alvarez M.
Interview no. 1321, Alfredo Angulo Castro
Interview no. 1290, José Mario Arredondo Salas
Interview no. 1206, Agustin Bautista
Interview no. 1146, Jesus Bautista R.
Interview no. 1200, Salvador Beltran Torres
Interview no. 1166, Pedro Benitez
Interview no. 1208, Efraín Benítez Satana