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![Dolores Huerta](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/22/1995Call Number: CV 285BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dolores Huerta speaks about the history of the Bracero Program. She explains how the government brought in thousands of agricultural workers, the terrible working conditions, preventing them from seeing their families and leaving the worker camps. UFW opposition led by her and Cesar Chavez forced the program to end in 1964.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #1: How, when, and why they came, Reel 2 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/1/1963Call Number: CE 642Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion of the reasons for immigration from Mexico to US following the years after the onset of the Mexican Revolution; includes discussion of Bracero Program, Operation Wetback, and immigration narratives.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #1: How, when, and why they came.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/1/1963Call Number: CD 845Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Details a brief history of California from the conquest of Spain until the early 1900s. Discusses missionaries, the development of pueblos (mission settlements), and immigration from US to Mexico in the early 1900s. Interviews from Californians about family immigration narratives.
Discussion of the reasons for immigration from Mexico to US following the years after the onset of the Mexican Revolution; includes discussion of Bracero Program, Operation Wetback, and immigration narratives.
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