Corona, Bert
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| Birthname | Humberto Noé Corona | ||||
| born on | 29 May 1918 at 04:00 (= 04:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | El Paso, Texas, 31n46, 106w29 | ||||
| Timezone | MWT h6w (is war time) | ||||
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Biography
American labor and civil rights leader. Throughout his long career, he worked with nearly every major Mexican-American organization, founding or co-founding several. He organized workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and fought on the behalf of immigrants. By the time of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, he was known as El Viejo ("the Old Man"), and was well-known and respected as a veteran activist. He died on 15 January 2001, aged 82.
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Source Notes
Birth certificate submitted by Sy Scholfield.
Categories
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (Civil rights)
- Vocation : Politics : Labor unions
