Arkansas State University Project Studies Mexican Laborer History: Arkansas State University is participating in a history research project on the ``braceros'' guest worker program that brought Mexican laborers to the United States to address a labor shortage, beginning in World War II.
Researchers hope to do at least 25 interviews, as well as collect archival materials, on how the braceros contributed to life in the state. They want to collect period hand tools, clothing, photographs, identification cards, letters and other documents.
The work will become part of the Bracero History Archive, a project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso.
