Introduction Bert Coron

This is a research musical theme that analyzes the spiritedness and contributions of Bert corposant in his entreat and feel as a political activist. The research paper is to tackle keenly and step by step the life of this fountainhead composed soldiery, a political activist, and above all a humans who never at one point of his eighty-years never backboneed down, aureole acted as an eye-opener to many and has left a living legacy as an arranger of many workers wedlocks in America. Introduction Bert Corona was born on the 29th day of May 1918 to Neo Corona his perplex and Margarita Escapite Salayandia his mother, his father was a commander in the Francisco villa during his birth.Berth during the whole of his life was recognized as American labor leaders and the civil rights activists. It is recorded that during his entire life his contributions were recognized in his work with really many major Hispanic physical compositions and as the founder of very many civil rights an d labor organizations. In his career as he was reorganized as the old man and fought tirelessly for the rights of the immigrants. (http//findarticles. com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_8_65/ai_76697709)Bert Corona enrolled in a school at an early age, he had a very good command of face Which gave him n upper hand above some of his classmates, while in school, his experience with racism started here, this is when some of his fellow students were punished inhumanly by race their mouths with soaps for speaking their own languages, but because of his command in English he was spared. When his mother heard of this she publicly objected to such treatments and took him from that school to a embarkation school in. (Garcio, 1994)His activist life started early in life and the starting signal one took place when he was in the fifth grade at Harvard boys school, this was when their history teacher always gave poor and wrong ides against the Mexican student in the Harvard school. The students org anized a strike which made the teacher to apologise (Garcio, 1994). Immediately Corona cleared his primary school Corona fall in El Pasio High school where he was playing basketball , by and by clearing his high school he was lucky to get an athletic Scholarship to the University of southern Carolina.Here he was lucky to get a amply time employment because of His experience in the drug store back at home and also because of the disposition of the scholarship which allowed him to work. At the university Corona studied commercial law and met different people which made him to shrink to blossom. It is at the work place- Brunswick pharmaceutic Company where he got the real reek of labor and had his first attempt to organize and train workers on their rights. (Rosales , 2000) Brunswick Pharmaceutical Company employees were mostly Mexican American immigrants.The workers had not known or joined any union and because of this faced a lot of frustrations as low wages, long hours of wo rk, poor working conditions and racism. When Corona joined this phoner with his good command in English, experience in the field and his activism nature he realized these problems and when Longshoremens uniting obstinate to recruit workers supported the recruitment of over 2500 workers and the same year led them to a strike to requisite wage payment increase.After the farm workers strike which was organized by the Longshoremens Union and facilitated by him the Union asked him to support in the organizing of the store workers of which they started with Brunswick Company. ((Garcio, 1983) When the Company wariness realized that Corona wanted to organize a Union of for the warehouse workers who were getting half of the pay of warehouse workers in the food industry, the anxiety fired him, this gave him a new dimension to life and he decided to abort his education at the expense of helping the Union.He abandoned hi college education when he was employed as a union organizer by Ha rry bridges of the Congress of industrial Organization. As an organizer in the packing department he learned to be very excellent this grew his fame (Rosales, 2000) Corona gained a lot of fame and commanded lot of influence among the Mexican America workers and the undocumented workers. This he gained because his numerous efforts to recruit and support Mexicans all over in the United States, this was being driven by his believe that either organization needs a good, strong and steady workers unions.He continued battle for the rights and against the mistreatment of the people who ca me from Mexico without the permission of the United States government. By 1965, he became regional organizer for the National Association of Mexican Americans. He gained a account for being able to influence Mexican American citizens. Becoming a member of the Northern California Democratic Campaign Committee, Corona actively supported Democratic candidates for two decades (http//findarticles. com/p/ar ticles/mi_m1295/ )Bert Corona in his life was closely identified with the works of National Mexican Brotherhood (Hermandad Mexicana Nacional,) , this is an organization which proved very much helpful to the immigrants, Hermandad Mexicana Nacional was focused in the organizing of the shell out Unions, defending of Undocumented workers and providing social service to this same undocumented workers. Since there were very many undocumented workers who never wanted to kick against the irreverence of their rights for fear of being deported.The organization gave them a base of argument and because sprung up to many parts including the Los Angeles. ( Rosales, 2000) The efforts and contributions of Bert Corona were well documented when he realized that most of the Mexican American workers did not know how the US law protected them he organized to them a good encase on how the law protected them. He is also being remembered for his protest against some of the of the striker Immigrant la ws, which wanted the employers to be responsible and liable for employing immigrants.(http//findarticles. com/p/articles/mi_m1295/ ) Corona more than than any other person, furthered the ideological struggle against the virgin birth and this he did during his public lectures and programs where he always preached the need of unity and oneness. star such was a meeting in which he had with students and the public where he launched the program to campaign against bills that would crack down on the hiring of illegal immigrants and to fight for humane immigration policies and practice.( http//www. ucpress. edu/books/pages/6201. php) Until his death in 2001, he was the chairman Hermandad Mexicana Nacional Los Angles Chapter and is more effort have been made towards the delivery of the Mexican American from their subjugation state in the United States. He participated actively as an activist, union organizer and an educator. (http//www. ucpress. edu/books/pages/6201. php) Works Cited Fra ncisco Arturo Rosales (2000) Testimonio A Documentary History of theMexican American Struggle for Civil Rights Arte Publico fight back Garcio T. Mario (1994) Memories of Chicano The Life and narrative of Bert Corona. University of California gouge Garcio T. Mario and Et al (1983). History Culture and Society Chicano studies in the 1980 . Bilingual Press http//www. ucpress. edu/books/pages/6201. php Retrieved on the 16th July 2008 http//findarticles. com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_8_65/ai_76697709 Retrieved on the 16th July 2008.