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 2011

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Interview no. 1475, Lorenzo Cano

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Interview No. 1506, Francisco Escalera

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Interview no. 1476, Raymundo González

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Interview No. 1545, Rosa Martha Zarate

Submissions from 2010

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Interview no. 1472, Maria Arreola Galvan

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Interview no. 1336, Jose Bujanda

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Interview No. 1597, Leticia Carabajal

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Interview no. 1459, Jesus T. Castilleda

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Interview no. 1465, Asención Flores

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Interview no. 1473, Octaviano Galvan

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Interview no. 1466, Antonio Garcia Delgado

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Interview no. 1460, Ramon García

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Interview no. 1467, Ramón Gil

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Interview no. 1461, Marcelino Gonzalez D.

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Interview no. 1468, Rafael Gonzalez M.

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Interview no. 1474, Jesus J. Ibarra Huerta

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Interview no. 1462, Fabian Landaverde S.

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Interview no. 1469, Jose Mata Alvarez

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Interview no. 1463, Juventino Muñoz P.

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Interview no. 1464, Silbano Robledo

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Interview no. 1470, Cipriano Romero

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Interview no. 1438, Sebastián Ruíz Ávila

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Interview no. 1471, José Tello

Submissions from 2009

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Interview no. 1233, Antonio Nuño

Submissions from 2008

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Interview No. 1591, Jonathan Abbot

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Interview no. 1327, Ramona Acosta

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Interview no. 1403, Encarnación Alamillo

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Interview no. 1329, Cándido Alarcón

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Interview no. 1330, José Natividad Alva Medina

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Interview no. 1331, Bernabé Álvarez Díaz

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Interview no. 1332, Horacio Andrejol Nogales

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Interview no. 1404, Manuel Aparicio

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Interview no. 1426, Antonio Aragón

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Interview no. 1405, Enrique Arellano

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Interview no. 1333, Sara Arrieta Hernández

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Interview No. 1579, Sam Ashworth

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Interview No. 1599, Dolores Atkins

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Interview no. 1427, Alonso Ayala

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Interview no. 1399, Rodolfo Balderrama

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Interview no. 1335, Lucas Edmundo Benítez Cárdenas

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Interview No. 1429, Audelia Bentura Cortéz

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Interview No. 1602, Fred Bourland

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Interview No. 1580, James Bourland

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Interview no. 1430, Vicente Campos Cruz

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Interview no. 1337, Natividad Cano

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Interview no. 1406, María Carrillo

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Interview no. 1428, Luis Barozio Ceja

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Interview no. 1343, Pablo C. Flores

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Interview No. 1601, Esteban Chavez

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Interview no. 1407, Roberto Martínez Cordero