Category Archives: Northeast
Luisa Moreno’s 1949 Address to California CIO
Luisa Moreno was the highest profile Latina in the labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Facing deportation for her leftist views, she addressed the 1949 California CIO Council. Here speech is reprinted here. Continue reading
Posted in Activist Profiles, California, Northeast, South, Southwest, Unions
Tagged CIO, CMIU, Cold War, ILGWU, UCAPAWA/FTA
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Jarrett Barrios: Political Pioneer
Jarrett Barrios is a pioneer as the first Latino in the Massachusetts State House and as the first Spanish-speaker to head a national gay rights advocacy group. Continue reading
Third Parties and New York Cigar Workers
The American Labor Party allowed the Latino community, particularly in Spanish Harlem, to shout “Viva Roosevelt” while maintaining an identity apart from the Tammany Hall Democratic Party organization. Continue reading
Posted in Northeast, Presidential Politics, Unions
Tagged American Labor Party, CMIU
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