The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
Workers
Land Owners and Braceros working together in California
Field work
A bracero harvests lettuce by hand, while the land owners workers are at war.
Processing
Officials take fingerprints from braceros while others wait in line to be processed at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas
The Bracero Archive was started in 2021 and worked on by many different academic institutions including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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