Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: María del Carmen Velázquez was born on a small ranch in Las Jaritas, in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno, México; she has six siblings, and her parents owned livestock and worked in agriculture; her father…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: María Julia García de Contreras was born in Cananea, Sonora, México, on March 29, 1931; she had two brothers and one sister; as a child, she moved to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, then to Douglas, Arizona,…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: María Serrano was born on January 4, 1930, in Tecolotlán, Jalisco, México; her husband was a bracero from 1944 to the end of the program; she moved to the United States in 1966 and worked picking cherries,…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: María Guadalupe Gutiérrez was born in Manuel Doblado, Guanajuato, México; she was formally educated through the third grade; her husband, Francisco Gutiérrez, was born in Lluvia de Oro, Chihuahua, México; he had…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Mauricio Salcido was born on September 13, 1936, in Durango, Durango, México; at the age of twenty-one, he became a bracero; he worked in Phoenix, Arizona, Michigan, Montana, and Texas from 1957 to…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Miguel Arroyo Castillo was born on August 15, 1916, in Tarimoro, Guanajuato, México; he has four sisters and two brothers; as a boy, he learned how to work the land; during the early1920s, his father would come…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Miguel Jáquez was born on May 7, 1931, in Chalchihuites, Zacatecas, México; he grew up in Súchil, Durango, with his nine siblings; when he was eight years old, he began working cutting wood and planting beans…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Miguel Ortega was born in Miacatlán, Morelos, México; his father worked in sugar cane fields; at the age of twelve, he joined his father in the fields; he was in the bracero program from 1957 to 1964; he worked…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Miguel Zavala was born on June 9, 1925, in Copandaro, Michoacan, México; at an early age, he began sowing beans, corn, garbanzos, and wheat; he joined the bracero program in 1955, and worked in California and…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Nemencio Meza was born on October 31, 1931, in Molcaxac, Puebla, México; he has two brothers and two sisters; his parents worked in the fields planting barley, beans, corn, and wheat; he was formally educated…
The top article clipping is a continuation of another article clipping. It's about braceros who are organizing to get back their 10%. The bottom article discusses the plans of ex-braceros from Sonora to protest in Guanjauto.
This article clipping states that ex-braceros from San Luis, Rio Colorado, Sonora were not included in the negotiations for their back wages. This article was published in La Cronica on February 7, 2006 in Mexicali, Baja California.
This article clipping is the continuation of another clipping. The article refers to the fact that ex-braceros from San Luis, Rio Colorado, Sonora were not counted in the negotiations for back wages. It was published February 7, 2006.
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Nicolás Martínez was born on September 9, 1926, in Puebla, México; he came from a family of campesinos, whose main crops were beans and corn; when he was roughly thirty-five years old, he enlisted in the…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Nicolás Saldaña was born on a small ranch just outside of Tlaltenango, Zacatecas, México; he has three sisters and one brother; as a child he helped work the land and care for the animals; in 1957, he enlisted…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Patricio Corrales was born in San Mateo Atenco, México, México; at the age of ten, he began cutting wood and sowing corn with his father; later, he worked in construction and in factories; due to his families…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro Benítez was born in the state of Sinaloa in México; when he was about two years old, his mother died while giving birth to his younger sister; shortly thereafter, his grandmother began to take care of him…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro Cantor was born on April 27, 1935, in Sacualco de las Torres, Jalisco, México; he is one of four brothers; at age fourteen, he began working in agriculture; he joined the bracero program in 1956, and…
Pedro de Alba González was born June 7, 1935, in Atotonilquillo, Jalisco, México, but he was raised in Acatlán de Juárez, Jalisco; his parents were campesinos, and he had two brothers and one half brother; Pedro was formally educated through the…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro de Real Pérez was born on October 30, 1927, in Zacatecas, México, to a family of farmers; in 1952, he enlisted in the bracero program; as a bracero, he worked in California, Montana, and Texas; his primary…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro Velázquez was born on May 4, 1939, on a small ranched named El Molino in San Diego de Alejandría, Jalisco, México; his parents worked in agriculture; he was never formally educated; consequently, he did…
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Perfecta Rivas de Rodríguez was born in Valparaíso, Zacatecas, México, on December 11, 1947; her mother, Consuelo Garcia, was a housewife, and her father, Juan Rivas Bañuelo, made marble headstones for…
