The Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934): The Day Filipinos Became Aliens

Philip Vera Cruz

The Watsonville Riots

The Broken Promise: Filipino WWII Veterans and the Rescission Act of 1946

The Sakadas: How Filipino Farmworkers Built Hawaii — and Fought to Be Free

Antonio Miranda Rodriguez: The Filipino Who Helped Found Los Angeles On September 4, 1781, forty-four settlers walked nine miles down a dusty trail toward a river in Alta California and founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles — the city the world would come to know as Los Angeles. Among those chosen to make that walk was a Filipino man named Antonio Miranda Rodriguez. His name is not on the founding plaque. This is why — and why it matters.

The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: When Filipinos Were Put on Display

Filipino Nurses in America: From 1907 to COVID-19 Frontlines

The International Hotel: The Night 400 Police Evicted Filipino Elders from San Francisco

The Manila Men: America's First Filipino Settlers (1763, Louisiana)