Rosa Martha Zárate Macías accepts International Latino Book Award!

Rosa Martha Zárate Macías accepted an ILBA Gold Medal for Our Grandfathers Were Braceros / Nuestros Abuelos Fueron Braceros on behalf of herself and co-author Abel Astorga Morales. She emphasized the importance of photos and firsthand testimony by Braceros about the labor conditions during the Bracero Program, the ongoing struggle for compensation by Braceros and their surviving family members, and the need to change current laws to improve the rights of people categorized as temporary workers. 

Click below to watch Rosa Martha accept the ILBA and speak starting at 59:50.

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