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Document 4

Keeping the New York State Home Front Going: Mexican Braceros in World War II

Image. Photo of a crowd of Mexicans registering for the U.S. Bracero program, 1943.

A crowd of Mexicans in Mexico City wait to register for the U.S. Bracero program, circa 1943. Photo taken by Hilda Mayer and printed in "Snapshots in a Farm Labor Tradition," by Howard Rosenberg, Labor Management Decisions Volume 3, No. 1, Winter-Spring 1993. Available online at http://are.berkeley.edu/APMP/pubs/lmd/html/winterspring_93/ snapshots.html

Document 4 Short-Answer Questions

  1. Where and when was the photograph taken?
  2. Judging from the photograph, how do you think Mexicans felt about the World War II braceros program?

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