The Life & Legacy of Larry Itliong

October 25th is Larry Itliong Day! 📣 Manong Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor leader who organized farm workers along the West Coast, beginning as early as the 1930s. He became well-known in the 1960s and 70s for spearheading the Delano grape strike and the United Farmworkers movement, teaming up with labor leaders such as Manong Philip Vera Cruz, Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta to demand farm workers' rights.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:30 Early Life & Migration to the U.S.
04:11 A Fiery Young Activist & War Hero
06:04 Special Greetings
06:39 The Delano Grape Strike
10:35 Continuing the Fight for Workers Rights
12:08 Manong Larry’s Legacy
14:08 Shoutouts & Closing

Learn more:
📖”Larry Itliong: Biography, Achievements, & Legacy” by Kirby Araullo (HISTORY.com) https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/...

📖 “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Carson, California, Establishing October 25, 2010 as Larry Itliong Day in Honor of his Life’s Work and Legacy to Promote and Fight for the Well Being of All of California’s Farm Workers" (City of Carson, California 2010).
📖 Kirby Araullo, and Anthony Tayag. Know History: Who Were the First Filipinos in America? Davis, CA: Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, 2018.
📖 Cordova, Fred, Dorothy Laigo. Cordova, and Albert A. Acena. Filipinos, Forgotten Asian Americans: A Pictorial Essay, 1763-circa 1963. Place of Publication Not Identified: Demonstration Project for Asian Americans, 1983.
📖 Cruz, Adrián. "Racialized Fields: Asians, Mexicans, and the Farm Labor Struggle in California." PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
📖 Emil Guillermo. "Restoring Larry Itliong to His Rightful Place during Filipino American History Month." AALDEF. October 16, 2013. https://www.aaldef.org/blog/restoring....
📖 Larry Itliong. (2021, August 20). Retrieved from https://www.californiamuseum.org/indu...