itliong in A Sentence

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    This, he proudly declares, is where his old cigar buddy, Filipino labor leader Larry Itliong, is buried.

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    Concerned about what they saw as top-down leadership, Itliong and other Filipinos started leaving the union in 1971.

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    Itliong didn't necessarily agree with everything that Cesar Chavez did, but he gritted his teeth for the sake of building a union.

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    Though these small recognitions are significant, Itliong and the manongs are essential figures for young Asian Americans to know, particularly when they're flipping through history books looking for Asian faces.

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    Before he moved north to Delano, Itliong spent the spring of 1965 fighting alongside grape workers in the Coachella Valley to raise their hourly pay from a meager $1.10 to $1.40.

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