The Bracero Program Collection features interviews with Mexican Americans who were involved with the program and photographs from the interviewees. The collection focuses on the home lives of children of participants of the program and those who directly participated in the program, giving insight to day-to-day treatment and work of the migrant farmers.

The Bracero Program was a U.S. Government sponsored program that imported Mexican farm workers starting in 1942, that ran through 1964. The program was started with the initial Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement being signed on August 4, 1942, in attempts to fill the agricultural labor shortage created due to World War II. The program attempted to establish 30 cents an hour as the minimum wage and outlined expected humane treatment of the workers entering the program. Though the program set guidelines, the treatment of both documented and undocumented laborers from Mexico tended to be poor, with Braceros experiencing discrimination, poor pay, charges for room and board, and exposure to deadly chemicals.