Mexican Women in 1939 Edinburg

Young 🇲🇽 Mujeres collecting carrots in Edinburg, TX, 1939. [Read caption for a slice of history 👩🏽‍🏫 ]⁠ ⁠ In 1942, the United States government signed the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement (Bracero Program) with Mexico, the first among several agreements aimed at legalizing and controlling Mexican migrant farm-workers.⁠ ⁠ Mexican workers were considered an unlimited supply of cheap labor for the 🇺🇸. ⁠ Texas farmers, opted to disregard the Bracero program and instead hire farm-workers directly from Mexico. Braceros: ⁠Spanish for “arm-man” or manual laborer. ⁠ Between 1942 and 1964 more than 4.5 million braceros entered the United States. In the 1950s alone as many as 300,000 Mexican workers were brought over annually to meet labor demands. To this day organizations continue to fight against the exploitation and rights of farmworkers. Know an organization doing the work? Tag 🏷 them below.