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In April 1938, Luisa Moreno and group of Mexican American labor activists, including Josefina Fierro, Eduardo Quevedo, and Bert Corona, organized the inaurural conference of El Congreso de Pueblos de Hablan Española in Los Angeles, an organization meant to promote a broad agenda of working class empowerment, civil rights, and Latino unity. [305]
1903: On February 11, 1903 500 Japanese and 200 Mexican laborers joined together and formed the first labor union called, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association.The JMLA opposed the Western Agricultural Contracting Company with three major concerns, the artificial suppression of wages, the subcontracting system that forced workers to pay double commissions, and the inflated prices of the ...
Jaime Manuel Gómez – Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division; Delia Gonzalez – flyweight female boxer [24] Jesús González – amateur champion and Super middleweight contender; Paul Gonzales – flyweight Olympic gold medalist; Rodolfo Gonzales – boxer, poet, and leader of the Chicano civil rights movement
50+ Influential Latina Women in History 1. Dolores Huerta. Huerta is a civil rights activist and labor leader. She worked tirelessly to ensure farmworkers received US labor rights and co-founded ...
Jovita Idar Vivero (September 7, 1885 – June 15, 1946) was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants.
Pages in category "Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Another famous Mexican-American Vietnam War activist is Joan Baez, but she conducted her protests through music.Credited with resurrecting the dying art of folk music along with her contemporary ...
American trade unionists of Mexican descent (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "American activists of Mexican descent" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.