Records from Anderson’s tenure at UCB School of Public Health where he was a researcher and graduate student. Main content is comprised of records pertaining to his thesis on the Bracero Program in California. Records include administrative files, such as a prospectus, grant applications, bibliographic notes, correspondence with his advisory committee and others, research files on numerous subjects, activity reports, documents on methodology, news clippings, and drafts of his thesis. Of particular interest are interviews conducted by Anderson and Louie Tagaban (the bilingual interviewer he hired) of braceros, camp managers, medical personnel, government and religious figures, and others. Also includes files on Anderson’s interaction with the American Friends Service Committee which resulted in the shutdown of his study by U.C. President Clark Kerr, and the related correspondence between government officials and Anderson’s advisory committee. Includes two versions of his thesis; he refers to the second one as the "sanitized" version.

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