Larry Itliong – Biography, Achievements & Legacy

Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor leader who organized West Coast farm workers from the 1930s. He rose to fame in the 1960s for leading the grape strike at Delano and teaming up with union leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to claim the rights of agricultural workers. The five-year strike resulted in better wages and benefits for farm workers and led to the eventual formation of the United Farm Workers.

“I think we’re as good as any of them. I think we have the same rights as any of them,” Itliong said in a 1976 speech. “Because in this Constitution it says that everyone has the same rights and justice. ”

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