This episode examines the Bracero Program in Arkansas. Dr. Justin Castro, Chair of the History Department at Arkansas State University and scholar of modern Latin America, explains its impact on immigration and civil rights movements in Arkansas and beyond. 

For more information on the Bracero Program:

Castro, Justin, "Mexican Braceros and Arkansas Cotton: Agricultural Labor and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II South," The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Spring 2016, p. 27-46. 

Bracero History Archive 

Bracero Program in Arkansas 

For more information about the Arkansas Humanities Council:

Arkansas Humanities Council