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The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
Bracero Program, series of agreements between the U.S. and Mexican governments to allow temporary laborers from Mexico, known as braceros, to work legally in the United States. The program ran from 1942 to 1964, and during that time more than 4.5 million Mexicans arrived in the United States.
Oct 1, 2016 · El Programa Bracero fue un acuerdo binacional que pretendía abastecer de trabajadores mexicanos agrícolas a los campos de cultivo y granjas estadunidenses. La Alianza de Exbraceros del Norte, una...
Jul 18, 2021 · The story of the Braceros will show the world how the impoverished communities are legally exploited, legally enslaved. In the case of the Braceros who came legally to this country, they came to support the United States in World War II with their arms, their brazos.
Mar 24, 2024 · An executive order called the Mexican Farm Labor Program established the Bracero Program in 1942. This series of diplomatic accords between Mexico and the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.
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.
May 9, 2021 · The Bracero Program was an agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed nearly 4.6 million Mexican citizens to enter the U.S. temporarily to work on farms, railroads, and in factories between 1942 and 1964.
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.
Sep 9, 2012 · The Bracero Program. About a year after the United States entered World War II, the Bracero Program revolutionized the way America dealt with the labor shortage which occurred as a result of American men leaving to serve in the war.
A bracero (from brazo, the Spanish word for arm) was a Mexican worker allowed entry into the United States for a limited time, usually to work on a farm. In 1942, facing an extreme shortage of farm labor workers due to the war, Congress enacted the Emergency Labor Program.
