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Braceros loading their belongings onto a bus for trip home to Mexico, El Centro, 1965

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Title: Braceros loading their belongings onto a bus for trip home to Mexico, El Centro, 1965
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1965
1965-01-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: The Bracero Program was instituted by the Mexican and United States governments to ease American agricultural labor shortages during World War Two. The program attracted millions of Mexican laborers, hopeful for higher wages and legal contract work, until its demise in 1964.
BACK TO NATIVE LAND-Mexican braceros load their belongings, many acquired in this country, aboard bus to begin 14-mile trip from El Centro reception center to the border. They were homebound because Mexican arm labor import program has ended.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b542_227135
ark:/21198/zz0002t98d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Arrivals & departures--Mexican--California, Southern
International
Economy
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
Mexicans--California, Southern
Foreign workers, Mexican--California
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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