History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1681 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Bracero Program
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The idea
On August fourth, nineteen forty-two, the United States and Mexico began the bracero programme, bringing Mexican workers to American farms to meet wartime labour needs.
In practice
Five million contracts across twenty-four states, the Yawp counts, with work on railroads as well as farms.
Where people slip
Unit ten showed Mexicans pushed out to cut relief rolls; a decade later they were recruited.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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