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Kathy Andrade

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and rose to prominence, first working as a union organizer and later as the Education Director for Local 23-25 of the
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Andrade began her career in the early 1950s working in factories, first in an airplane parts plant and later in the
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Andrade met her second husband, Jorge Colon, while representing El Salvador in a cultural pageant. She lived in the
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due to political unrest. She returned to El Salvador in the 1940s and married, taking her husband's
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Andrade continued to advocate for immigrant rights after her
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Andrade was born as Enriqueta Mixco on July 8, 1932, in
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Salvadoran-American
Santa Ana, El Salvador
Guatemala
surname
cancer
Penn South
Manhattan
garment industry
labor unions
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
undocumented workers
labor movement
immigrant rights
amnesty
educational programs
citizenship
social justice
civil rights
retirement







"Kathy Andrade, Unionist Who Fought for Immigrant Workers, Dies at 88"
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