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Toilet facilities at a bracero camp in California.

Toilet facilities in a Californian bracero's camp.

Toilet facilities in a Californian bracero's camp.

Tomás Zapata Castañeda

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Tomás Zapata Castañeda was born in Ejido el Faro, Chihuahua, México in 1937; although he did help his father in the fields, he also went to school; in 1956, he was hired as a bracero at the age on nineteen; he…

Tomas Pelayo

Tranquilino Camacho Rodríguez

Trazando la ruta de un bracero

Los estudiantes examinarán una historia oral relacionada al programa de trabajadores bracero y presentarán su investigación en un mapa.

Trinidad Guzmán García

Truck on the road

Image of truck loaded with boxes and crates.

Tags: truck

Tula Bareda Sánchez

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Aida Bareda Torres was born on July 31, 1934, and her sister, Tula Bareda Sánchez, was born on December 1, 1935; they were both born in Mission, Texas; their father worked as a local doctor, and coincidentally…

Two braceros check for mail at the Gondo Labor Camp in Watsonville, California.

Two braceros fix a tent in a Californian bracero camp.

Two braceros have a look at a notice board in an office in Stockton, California, which says how many braceros were needed from which growers association.

The notice board reads "No Mex labor shall be used on mechanized equip." This rule, however, was very loosely enforced, and braceros often found themselves doing a variety of tasks not provided for on their contracts.