Seasonal Farm Laborers Program

Mr. Guevara Rodriguez grew up in Valle de Santiago Guanajuato. He worked as a bracero in Texas, California, Kansas City, and Montana; picking cotton, strawberries, corn, and harvesting lettuce, asparagas and sugar beet. Activities he did from 1949 to 1964.

Mr. Solano was born on August 27, 1939 in Tilxapotla, Morelos. He grew up as a farmworker on his family's land. He has a basic formal education. He remembers discrimination that the braceros went through both in Mexico (Empale, Sonora) & in the US (Stockton). He experienced discrimination in church. He worked in California and Arizona.

Extensive labor experiences, was deported on one occasion; suffered an accident while on the job; family problems after he obtained residency for his wife, bracero.

Mexican Revolution, Battles of Zacatecas, Torreón, Camargo, the personalities of Villa, de Anda and Murguña; recollections of black American soldiers during the Revolutionary years.

Mr. Guzman grew up in Uriangato, Guanajuato. He worked as a bracero in California and Arizona picking tomato, green been, oranges, lemons, grapfuit, lettuce, strawberry and plum. Activities he did from 1957 to 1964.

Mr. Sandoval grew up in Mexico City. He worked as a railroad line worker in Kansas, shoveling gravel on roadbeds and repairing the rails. Activities he did from 1943 to 1944.

Mr. Ortega was born in Miacatl?n, Morelos; help he received from people when trying to get a contract as a bracero; picked green tomato, lettuce, packed lettuce; worked as a bracero until 1964.

The Mexican Revolution, migrant workers in the United States; Prohibition; Bracero Program.

Bracero Program; experiences and duties as a bracero; anectodes of the braceros and working and living conditions on a pear ranch; duties in the Navy; Vietnam, where he was almost awarded the Purple Heart, some of the prejudices he encountered; deferential attitudes of the Mexican when dealing with "gringos."

Biographical data; experiences in school; went to M?xico with his family in 1924, where he worked as an office boy; after retuning to the United States worked in construction in Colorado, and later went to New York where he worked for the railroad as an interpreter for braceros; present employment experiences.