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The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

FromThe History Hour


The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

FromThe History Hour

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Nov 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

From 1942 to 1964 the US actively encouraged American farmers to hire tens of thousands of migrant workers to come to work legally from Mexico - they were known as 'braceros'; also, when Moscow invited thousands of foreign students to attend an International Youth Festival in the former USSR; a witness to the funeral of the Duke of Wellington; plus Arafat's final weeks and why was JKF's killer allowed to defect to the Soviets?

Photo: A group of Mexican Braceros picking strawberries in a field in the Salinas Valley, California in June 1963 (Getty Images)
Released:
Nov 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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