Grade Range: 6-8Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, WorksheetsDate Posted: 9/12/2009
In this activity, one of three on the Bracero Archive website, students will examine an oral history related to the Bracero worker program and present their research on a map.
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
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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