Showing posts with label #LarryItliong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #LarryItliong. Show all posts
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Filipino/American National Historical Society Museum opens in Stockton

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FANHS photo Some of the panels telling the history of Filipino Americans are from the Smithsonian. By Louis Chan REPRINTED FROM ASAM N...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

DNC: Asian/Americans help shape the Democratic Platform

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T HE 2016 DEMOCRATIC PARTY Platform may have made history. For perhaps the first time, an Asian/American was specifically mentioned in t...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

First U.S. school named after Filipino/American heroes

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AMS Facebook Gym class at Alvarado Middlle School reflects the school's diversity. W HEN LABOR LEADERS Larry Itliong and Phillip V...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

FIL-AM HISTORY MONTH: Drive to name a street after Filipino/American labor hero Larry Itliong

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Cesar Chavez, left, and Larry Itliong merged their respective unions to form the United Farm Workers. S UNDAY, Oct. 25, 2015 is a...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Grape strike anniversary: Delano '"is our Selma."

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Cesar Chavez, left, and Larry Itliong united two rival unions to launch the Grape Strike and Boycott.. F IFTY YEARS AGO, today, Sept. 7,...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Delano grape strike this Labor Day weekend.

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Filipino/American labor leader Larry Itliong, left, and Cesar Chavez, right, joined forces. T HE MOMENTOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF THE Gr...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Two Filipino Americans vie for same Emmy; "Delano Manongs" nominated

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Darren Criss also had an acting role in Glee. I T IS NOT OFTEN that Asian Americans get nominated for the 67th Emmy awards but this yea...
Monday, July 6, 2015

California governor signs Assemblyman Bonta's bill for Larry Itliong Day

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Larry Itliong O N OCT. 25, California's school children will hear about Filipino American labor leader Larry Itliong. California...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Larry Itliong Day passed by California Assembly

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Larry Itliong, an unsung hero of the labor movement, described himself: "I'm a mean son of a bitch." O NE OF THE UNSUNG he...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Today in history: Why were Selma marchers wearing Hawaiian leis?

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Civil rights struggle linked Asians and African Americans The picture above is a famous one published in history books and rec...