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The Bracero Program was an attractive opportunity for men who wished to either begin a family with a head start with American wages, [64] or to men who were already settled and who wished to expand their earnings or their businesses in Mexico. [65] As such, women were often those to whom both Mexican and US governments had to pitch the program ...
A first-of-its-kind Yolo County exhibit Tuesday honored the legacy of the Bracero Program which first started in 1942 but was ended in 1964. Yolo County honors legacy of Mexican "braceros" and ...
Mexican American filmmaker Iliana Sosa's documentary, "What We Leave Behind" tells the story of a grandfather who was part of the "bracero" program.
In the late 1950s, Chavez was organizing CSO chapters in Oxnard, California, where farmworkers faced exploitative labor conditions due to the Bracero Program. Many local Mexican American workers were displaced by low-wage bracero laborers, and Chavez began organizing protests against the program.
Although the Bracero Program ended in 1964, the migration of Mexican workers did not. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 which had put limits on the total number of visas granted, was amended in 1965 following the termination of the Bracero Program. These amendments put an end to the quota system, and instead, created a total number of ...
Henry Pope Anderson (December 14, 1927 – October 24, 2016) was a farm labor union organizer, activist, author, and historian. He studied the Bracero program (an agricultural guest-worker program) as a graduate student in Public Health at the University of California.
Mexican American filmmaker Iliana Sosa's documentary, "What We Leave Behind" tells the story of a grandfather who was part of the "bracero" program. Through a Mexican grandfather's story, the WWII ...
These reports include those of workers under the Bracero Program, who managed to communicate with the nearest consulate before being forced join the army. Many Mexicans also voluntarily enlisted in the United States Army at the end of their employment contract, to maintain an income and not returning to Mexico, where job opportunities were ...