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Race, Labor, and Capitalism in the Americas

Digital Archives

Bracero History Archive
"The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America."

Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts
In addition to documents, the site includes historical background, chronology, arguments, and a bibliography.

Farmworker Movement Documentation Project: Cesar Chavez, The Farmworker Movement: 1962-1993
"The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993."

Walter P. Reuther Library: Exhibits
Online exhibits from the Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University.

The Internet Archive

The Internet Archive

In addition to some some 3 million public domain books, the Internet Archive also archives websites, software, games, music, and a variety of moving images.

Digital Schomburg

Digital Schomburg: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Search or browse a rich collection of images taken from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.