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Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Rodolfo Aranda Morales was born in Morelos, Chihuahua, México; he began working with the bracero program in 1953; as a bracero, he worked in the cotton and beet fields of Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, and…

Alien Laborer's Identification Card of Pedro Velasquez. Mica Card.

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Jesús Flores was born on April 15, 1925 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México; he grew up in a small town outside Guadalajara, and worked with his parents in a ranch; in 1951, he joined the bracero program and worked…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Herminio Estrada Tozcano was born on a ranch in Saloya, Jalisco, México; he was the second born, of his two sisters; his father died in the revolution when he was roughly three or four years old; he started…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Herminio Estrada Tozcano was born on a ranch in Saloya, Jalisco, México; he was the second born, of his two sisters; his father died in the revolution when he was roughly three or four years old; he started…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Francisco Gutiérrez was born in Lluvia de Oro, Chihuahua, México; he had five brothers and six sisters, but his father also had eight children with another woman; his mother was twenty-three years old and a…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Herminio Martínez was born in Totatiche, Jalisco, México; he had about fourteen or fifteen siblings, but only ten, five women and five men, are living; although he was not formally educated for very long, he…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Aurelio Pereida Rodarte was born on January 13, 1925, in México; when he was only two years old, his mother passed away; his father was often gone and remarried four other times; consequently, Aurelio grew up…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Rosario Rentería was born on May 14, 1939, on a ranch named Tacote, and she was raised in Nayarit, México; her father’s name was Eugenio Rentería, and her mother’s name was Refugio Gómez de Rentería; Rosario was…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Clemente Velázquez Lucio was born on a ranch named El Molino, in San Diego de Alejandría, Jalisco, México, on November 23, 1931; his father’s name was Santos Velázquez, and his mother’s name was María Guadalupe…

Plutarco Chavez Ruiz's Bracero ID Card (front side).

Plutarco Chavez Ruiz's indentification card (backside).

Color picture of Plutareo in the fields in Salinas, California.

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Herminio Quezada Durán was born in Satevó, Chihuahua, México, in 1925, to a family of farmers; he had ten siblings; upon his father’s passing in 1949, he and his family moved to Chihuahua, Chihuahua; he became a…

This photo of Rafael Hernandez was taken with him next to a tractor machine. It's cut off from the picture. The picture was taken in 1956.

Rafael Hernandez on a John Deer tractor in 1956

Photo of Rafael Hernandez holding a jumper in 1956