Baldemar Velasquez Rank
About Baldemar Velasquez
He is the co-founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. He is best known as an American labor union activist who won the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1994.
Early Life
The labor leader was born to Cresencio and Vicenta Castillo Velásquez. He first enrolled and graduated from the Pandora-Gilboa High School and later went on to study at Pan American University. His time there was quite short as he transferred to Ohio Northern College and later to Bluffton College, where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in sociology.
Career
Velasquez grew up studying the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, César Chávez, and Martin Luther King Jr. He founded the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in 1967 to organize various farmworkers so that they could cooperate with the growers to improve pay and education for the pickers on the farm. He increased his horizon and began focusing on national and international companies in addition to his growers during the 1970s. Velasquez also went on to implement long-term strategies to build public support for the farmworkers, publicizing the discrimination, and low wages, and often highlighting their terrible working conditions from 1970 to 1983.
Achievements
The labor leader received an inaugural Bannerman Fellowship for helping organize people for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice in 1988. He also received the Aguila Azteca Award in 1994.
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F.A.Q. about Baldemar Velasquez
When is his birthday?
Baldemar Velasquez's birthday is on February 15, 1947.
In how many days is his birthday?
Baldemar's birthday is in 296 days
How old is he?
He is 77 years old.
Where is Baldemar from?
He was born in Pharr, Texas, U.S..