"Americans All - Let's Fight for Victory" 1942-1945 (see citation below) |
Welcome to the supplemental post for Episode 22. In this episode I discuss the Bracero Program or what was officially known as the Mexican Farm Labor Program. This was an agreement between the Mexican and United States government that allowed Mexican agricultural and railroad workers into the U.S. for short term work contracts during WWII. This program ran from 1942-1964.
The first Braceros arriving in Los Angeles by train in 1942 wikimedia commons |
Photograph of Mexican Laborers see citation below |
Braceros Listening to Radio see citation below |
Braceros in Living Quarter see citation below |
Serving Braceros a Meal see citation below |
Serving Braceros a Meal see citation below |
By Elena Zelayeta, 1944 |
Torta Azteca |
RESOURCES
** A special thank you to Ximena Martin for sharing some of her wonderful research resources with me!
Websites:
Bracero History Archive
http://braceroarchive.org/about
The Bracero Program
The Digital Public Library of America
Franky Abbott, Hillary Brady. Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program. 2015. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/primary-source-sets/mexican-labor-and-world-war-ii-the-bracero-program . (Accessed September 21, 2021.)
Bracero Oral History Project
Institute of Oral History, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at El Paso
https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/oral-history/
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/bracero/
National Hispanic Heritage Month
https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/about/
NPR Article about the history behind why we call September 15-October 15 National Hispanic Heritage Month
Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology (search “Bracero”)
https://learninglab.si.edu/about/Smithsonian-Office-of-Educational-Technology
Bracero Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_program
Images:
Mexican Farm Workers Who have been Accepted for Farm Labor in the U.S. through the Braceros Program. Department of Agriculture, National Archives, 1942.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7452192
Photograph of Mexican Laborers
Department of Agriculture, National Archives, date unknown.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/596405
“Americans All - Let’s Fight for Victory”, Office of War Information. National Archives, 1942-1945.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/513803
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. “Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Serving Braceros a Meal.” Smithsonian Learning Lab, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, 2 Nov. 2015, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/r/130428
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. “Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Serving Braceros a Meal.” Smithsonian Learning Lab, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, 2 Nov. 2015, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/r/126801
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. “Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Braceros in Living Quarter.” Smithsonian Learning Lab, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, 1 Nov. 2015, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/r/85409
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. “Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Bracero Camp.” Smithsonian Learning Lab, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, 31 Oct. 2015, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/r/70237
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. “Smithsonian Learning Lab Resource: Braceros Listening to Radio.” Smithsonian Learning Lab, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, 2 Nov. 2015, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/r/122125
The first Braceros arriving in Los Angeles by train in 1942, Oakland Museum of California, Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BraceroProgram.jpg
Books:
The Bracero Program: A Historical Investigation (educational workbook with primary source materials)
https://americanhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/Bracero%20Historical%20Investigation.pdf
Mexican Labor & World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 by Erasmo Gamboa
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/029597849X/
Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom by Mireya Loza
https://www.amazon.com/Defiant-Braceros-Migrant-Political-Borderlands/dp/1469629763/
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