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Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Liborio Santiago was born on June 23, 1924, in Etla, Oaxaca, México; he was the oldest of three brothers; at age of twelve, he became an orphan, and was adopted by an aunt; there, he was forced to work in the…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Manuel Guzmán was born in Uriangato, Guanajuato, México; from an early age, he worked sowing corn, garbanzo beans, and wheat; as a teenager, he crossed into the United States to work as an undocumented worker;…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Manuel Sandoval was born in Mexico City, México; he was the oldest of four brothers; at the age of ten, his father left the family; in his youth, he worked as a street vendor, a factory employee, and a mechanic;…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Miguel Arroyo Castillo was born on August 15, 1916, in Tarimoro, Guanajuato, México; he has four sisters and two brothers; as a boy, he learned how to work the land; during the early1920s, his father would come…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Miguel Zavala was born on June 9, 1925, in Copandaro, Michoacan, México; at an early age, he began sowing beans, corn, garbanzos, and wheat; he joined the bracero program in 1955, and worked in California and…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Patricio Corrales was born in San Mateo Atenco, México, México; at the age of ten, he began cutting wood and sowing corn with his father; later, he worked in construction and in factories; due to his families…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Rodolfo Cruz was born near Mexico City, México; he was the oldest of six siblings; at an early age, he worked in agriculture; at the age of sixteen, he moved to Miacatlán, Morelos, México; he joined the bracero…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Servando Peñaloza was born in Guayameo, Guerrero, México; he worked in agriculture from the age of six; at the age of nineteen, he moved to Mexico City, México; he joined the bracero program in 1955 with his…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Alberto Montes was born on September 14, 1928, in Huejuquilla el Alto, Jalisco, México; he is the oldest of eight siblings; he never attended formal schooling, and began working in agriculture at age eleven; in…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Cecilio Santillano was born on December 22, 1927, in El Dorado, Chihuahua, México; he was one of three siblings; at age eight, he began working with his father in agriculture; he joined the bracero program in…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Cris Luna was born on January 27, 1925, in Ozuluama, Veracruz, México; he was the oldest of fourteen children; at an early age, he help his father do field work; he did not attend school during this time; at age…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Faustina Flores was born on February 16, 1932, in Tapalpa, Jalisco, México; she had ten siblings; when she was nineteen, she married a man named Timoteo Flores; they had eleven children; in 1957, her husband…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Gil Villagran was born in 1948, in Mexico City, México; he is the son of an ex-bracero; his father joined the bracero program in 1943; at age five, his parents migrated to the United States; he is a retired…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Guadalupe González was born on August 1, 1925, in Aguililla, Michoacán, México; at age eight, he began working in the cultivation of rice; he never received formal schooling, and was taught by an aunt to read…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Isidoro Ramírez was born on April 4, 1935, in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, México; he is one of thirteen siblings; at an early age, he began working in agriculture; in 1956, he joined the bracero program; he worked in…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Jesus Silva was born on January 1, 1932, in Michoacán, México; he was one of sixteen siblings; at age six, he began working with his father in agriculture; he never attended formal schooling, and later joined…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Josie Carrillo Johnson was born in the United States to a Mexican-American woman and a bracero man; she is one of five siblings; her mother had two children from an earlier marriage; her father was from…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Luis Zamudio Villagómez was born on November 4, 1938, in Moroleón, Guanajuato, México; he is one of seventeen children, though nine died at a young age; he had formal schooling until the sixth grade; at age…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Matilde Gallegos was born on March 30, 1930, in Benito Juárez, Chihuahua, México; he was one of six children; at the age of twelve, he started working with his father and bother in agriculture; he received…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro Cantor was born on April 27, 1935, in Sacualco de las Torres, Jalisco, México; he is one of four brothers; at age fourteen, he began working in agriculture; he joined the bracero program in 1956, and…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Raúl Canela was born on June 19, 1940, in Emiliano Zapata, Michoacán, México; he received formal education and finished secondary schooling; at age fourteen, he began working in agriculture; at age twenty-two,…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Thomas Turrey was born on July 25, 1924, in Los Angeles, California; he did his grade school in Merced, California; in 1958, he joined the Bracero Program, and worked as a supervisor for commissary services; his…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Jesús Hernández was born on August 28, 1920, in San Felipe, Guanajuato, México; he had eight siblings, and together they grew up with their parents on a farm; at a very young age, he began helping his father…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Ismael Osorio was born in June of 1923, in Chalcatongo de Hidalgo, Oaxaca, México; he went to school only through the sixth grade, because there were no secondary schools in his hometown; in 1944, he decided to…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro de Real Pérez was born on October 30, 1927, in Zacatecas, México, to a family of farmers; in 1952, he enlisted in the bracero program; as a bracero, he worked in California, Montana, and Texas; his primary…