Rafael Gonzalez, 1943
Item
Title
Rafael Gonzalez, 1943
Identifier
2022.006.045
Type
Image
Description
Rafael Gonzalez is pictured here at Cone Camp in 1943. Gonzalez was recruited from Mexico City as part of the United States - Mexico Bracero labor program during World War II. "Coney Camp" as it was known to the local Mexican population, was a former jail and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) training center located on the banks of the Santa Ana River in East Highlands. Converted to house Mexican laborers, the facility held up to 1,500 men at a time. Despite federal mandates for reasonable living conditions, wages, and medical care many braceros like those living in Cone Camp lived in wooden barracks and sometimes in tents where the men endured severe winter weather and extreme heat in the summer. The Bracero Program officially ended in 1964.
Subject
Bracero Program
Housing, Coney Camp
Mexican American
History
World War II
Cone Camp
Spatial Coverage
Cone Camp
Temporal Coverage
1943
Creator
Unknown
Date
1943
Contributor
Inland Mexican Heritage
Format
.tif
Language
English
Rights
Bibliographic Citation
Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.