![]() “Of course, there were some hard feelings. “There are names lost in history, and today’s ceremony goes a ways to rectifying that,” Chavez, 58, told NBC News. He went on to lead the farm worker movement that many believed changed the world.Īmong those gathered at Delano's Filipino Hall - the historic site of the strike vote - was Chavez’ son, Paul, who remembered his "Uncle Larry," Itliong. from the Philippines with a 6th grade education. Itliong was 16 when he arrived in the U.S. 8), nearly 500 people gathered Labor Day weekend in Delano in California’s Central Valley to try and correct the record on Itliong and Chavez. 7th), and their bold first step to walk off the fields (Sept. To mark 50 years since the week after the strike vote by Filipinos (Sept. ![]()
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