Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor rights leader who fought for equal pay and better living conditions for farm and cannery workers along the West Coast and in Alaska, after immigrating ...
To hear Larry Itliong say it, the mission is clear: “Let’s fight for the voiceless.” The Filipino American civil rights activist, who died in 1977, has been ignored by mainstream historians ...
A Labor Day story of migrant farmworker Larry Itliong’s fight for better conditions In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for ...