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Filipinos Sparked Farm Workers Movement
Discover a less visible aspect of Filipino Americans' history: the role they played alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the United Farm Workers Movement. Lost LA host Nathan Masters visits Unidad Park in the Historic Filipinotown district of Los Angeles with Aquilina Soriano Versoza from the Pilipino Workers Center to learn about labor organizers Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and more.
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