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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.
The Hispanic victims of the accident were placed in a mass grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno, California, with their grave marked only as "Mexican Nationals". [2] The grave is 84 by 7 ft (25.6 by 2.1 m) with two rows of caskets and not all of the bodies were buried the first day, but the caskets at the site did have an overnight guard. [6]
During this time through World War II, the farm was renamed Rio Vista and large numbers of neglected children were housed there. From 1950 to 1964 the farm served as a processing center for the Bracero Program which brought Mexicans to the United States as guest agricultural workers. [2] The site was the first permanent reception center for ...
The braceros program brought millions of workers from Mexico to the US. A newly named National Historic Landmark in Socorro, Texas, honors their story. ... Corral and millions of others who ...
Bracero workers were selected through a multi-phase process, which required passing a series of selection procedures at Mexican and U.S. processing centers. The selection of bracero workers was a key aspect of the bracero program between the United States and Mexico, which began in 1942 and formally concluded in 1964.
The photos are part of a collection from Ernesto Galarza, a former Mexican American activist and lead figure for immigrant farm worker organizations. 'Los Braceros' exhibit to become permanent ...
Ernesto Galarza (August 15, 1905 – June 22, 1984) was a Mexican-American labor organizer, activist, professor, poet, writer, storyteller, and a key figure in the history of immigrant farmworker organization in California. He had a dream of giving better living conditions to working-class Latinos.