Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Worksheets, Primary SourceDate Posted: 9/12/2009
In this activity, one of three on the Bracero Archive website, students will discuss their thoughts on immigration, learn about the Bracero labor program, and use photographs to develop deeper understandings of the Bracero labor program.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is part of a consortium of museums, universities, and cultural institutions documenting and preserving the history of the bracero program, a little-known chapter of American history in which an estimated two million Mexican men came to the United States between 1942-1964 on short-term labor contracts.
Discussions, Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Small group instruction
The short-handled hoe brings back memories of back-breaking labor for generations of Mexican and ...
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A little girl experiences the hardship of immigrating to a new country where she no longer has th...
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