Bert Corona
Humberto N. Corona | |
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Corona in 1997 | |
| Born | May 29, 1918 |
| Died | January 15, 2001 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Mexican-American |
| Occupation(s) | Labor movement and civil rights leader |
Humberto Noé Corona (May 29, 1918 – January 15, 2001) was a Mexican-American labor and civil rights leader. Throughout his long career, he worked with nearly every major Mexican-American organization, founding or co-founding several. He organized workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and fought on the behalf of immigrants. By the time of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, he was known as El Viejo ("the Old Man"), and was well-known and respected as a veteran activist.