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Bracero Program Oral History Story Honors Project: this activity has students choose an oral history related to the bracero program, complete secondary research, and construct a fact-based historical history. Guidance on creating the historical story is provided. --Caryl Terrell-Bamiro

Films and Activities: a list of immigration films that specifically deal with immigrants and the U.S./Mexico boundary and some possible activities for a few of the more noteworthy films from the list. --Rosa Ellingson

Immigration Reform Project Persuasive Essay Project: this project is a comprehensive persuasive essay assignment for an English 102 class including research goals, assignment goals, readings, writing assignments, collaborative activities, resources (films, videos and other online sources) and a political cartoon activity. A collaborative activity which has students explore the purposes of immigration from different perspectives helps students pre-pare to analyze Bracero’s stories that they encounter through the Bittersweet Harvest exhibit. --Val Rehrer

Excerpted clip from oral history of Maria Molina Hernandez
This is an excerpt from an oral history of Maria Molina Hernandez. The interview was conducted by Dr. Kim Chuppa-Cornell, CGCC Library Faculty. The full oral history is available here