In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for better wages and working conditions. It was the birth of the farmworkers labor movement ...

While Itliong began his organizing efforts shortly after he arrived in America, participating in walkouts and fighting for fair labor contracts, he was best known for the Delano grape strike of 1965.

Johnny Itliong grew up in California's grape fields. His father Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano Grape Strike in 1965. Johnny came to StoryCorps to share stories about his dad with his own son.

Itliong lived in Delano and was a key figure in farm labor movements including the Delano Grape Strike during the 1960s. He died back in 1977 but some of his children still live in the area.

In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for better wages and working conditions. It was the birth of the farmworkers labor movement ...

The grand opening of the $4.5 million dollar, seven-acre public park, known as ‘Larry Itliong Unity Park.’ Agriculture has always been Delano’s major industry, as well as its long history of ...

In 1965, Itliong brought labor workers to boycott in the Delano grape strike. But it wasn't until recently that Itliong was finally credited for his work in the California labor movement.

The U.S. Labor Department inducted Filipino labor leaders Larry Dulay Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Peter Gines Velasco, who led the 1965 Delano Grape Strike, into the department's Hall of Honor ...

Larry Itliong might not be a household name, but he's an iconic hero in the Filipino and farmworkers' communities. ... and was instrumental in the pivotal Delano Grape Strike. ...

The U.S. Labor Department inducted Filipino labor leaders Larry Dulay Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Peter Gines Velasco, who led the 1965 Delano Grape Strike, into the department's Hall of Honor ...