Baldemar Velasquez
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1947 –
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Who is Baldemar Velasquez?
Baldemar Velásquez is an American labor union activist. He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1989, and awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1994, the highest honor Mexico can bestow on a non-citizen.
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- Born
- Feb 15, 1947
Pharr - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Ohio Northern University
- Bluffton University
- University of Texas–Pan American
- Lived in
- Texas
- Toledo
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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