"How poor is the memory of those right wing leaders that are blind to reason — who refuse to see that the interests of labor and the people are one"
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Luisa Moreno
Luisa Moreno (August 30, 1907 – November 4, 1992) was a leader in the United States labor movement and a social activist. She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", before being deported to Guatemala in 1950.
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