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Meet the Filipino American Civil Rights Icon Who Was Forgotten By History


Meet the Filipino American Civil Rights Icon Who Was Forgotten By History
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Larry Itliong dreamed of becoming a lawyer when he immigrated to the United States as a teen in 1929.However, the circumstances of being a Filipino American worker at the time would eventually lead him to a higher calling.
Itliong started young in leading the fight for migrants’ labor rights during a tumultuous period in America, according to the Smithsonian. While a growing number of people recognize him now as a key figure of the Asian American movement, many are still unfamiliar with his story.
 
He had a dream ....

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Dolores Huerta, the Labor Activist Behind the Slogan '¡Sí, Se Puede!'




Delores Huerta in front of a painting of Cesar Chavez at United Farm Workers (UFW) headquarters in Keene, California. Annie Wells/Getty Images
More than 50 years ago, a determined young woman stepped up and created the iconic slogan
¡Sí, se puede! ( Yes, we can! ) that would lift up the voices of the voiceless and change the state of labor in the United States forever. That woman, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, would go on to co-found the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Cesar Chavez.
The NFWA later became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and, as vice president of that organization until 1999, Huerta helped launch the first farmworkers strike in the country, which kickstarted the fight for union rights and labor organizing in the agricultural sector in the U.S. and changed the lives of farmworkers forever. ....

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