In 1965, 800 Filipino farmworkers started the now-famous Delano grape strike under the leadership of Larry Itliong, but Itliong knew he needed to join forces with Mexican laborers, so he recruited the help of Cesar Chavez.
Together, they founded the United Farmworkers Union.
But as the labor movement grew, it was Chavez and not Itliong who became the face of workers’ rights, and that is something that has never sat well with the Itliong family…