Itliong finished the sixth grade before his move to the United States. nationals and not subject to the Immigration Act of 1924, which barred immigrants from Asia. Due to the annexation of the Philippines by the United States at the end of the 19th century, Filipinos were U.S. Itliong left the Philippines for the United States when he was 15, arriving in 1929. His parents were Artemio and Francesca Itliong. Larry Dulay Itliong was born on October 25, 1913, in San Nicolas, Pangasinan, Philippines. He was also a leader of one of the two unions that merged to become the well-known United Farm Workers. Despite Cesar Chavez's prominent involvement in the Delano Grape Strike of the 1960s, it was Itliong who coordinated the initial labor action that grew into a wide-ranging boycott. He was a Filipino American "manong," a respectful term from the Ilocano dialect meaning "older brother" that was used to refer to the Filipino men who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century.
Though he'd dreamed of studying law, Itliong first became a migrant worker, then a labor organizer who fought for better treatment and pay.
A teenage Larry Itliong left the Philippines and arrived in the United States in 1929.
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