Bracero History Archive
- Label
- Bracero History Archive
- Principal Link
- braceroarchive.org
- Description
- 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 the United States.
- Creators
- 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. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Principal Investigators: Sharon Leon, Tom Scheinfeldt; Project Manager: James Halabuk. Collections Director: Kristine Navarro; Outreach Director & Content Lead: Matt Garcia; Collections, Outreach & Dissemination Coordinator: Peter Liebhold, Steve Velazquez, Bonnie Lilienfeld; Latino Programming Coordinator: Magdalena Mieri
- Contact Information
- chnm@gmu.edu
- Status
- active