Baldemar Velasquez
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About
Labor union activist who co-founded the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a labor union representing migrant farm workers in the Midwest, in 1967.
Before Fame
He would help his parents in the fields starting at the age of four.
Trivia
He was named as a MacArthur Fellow and awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor that can be received by a non-citizen of Mexico.
Family Life
He was born to Cresencio and Vicenta-Castillo Velasquez with eight siblings.
Associated With
He was influenced by the ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez.
