Mireya Loza, curator at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, discusses the Bracero Program (1942-1964), the largest guest worker initiative in U.S. history. Loza's most recent publication, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (University of North Carolina Press), has been widely lauded as the most comprehensive and extensive historical publication on Braceros and the Bracero Program.

Photo courtesy Leonard Nadel Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.​

This program is part of the Libraries' Beyond the Page public programming series.