Filipino American History Month is celebrated every October to commemorate the 1587 arrival of the first Filipinos in California. Explore the full timeline of Filipino American history — from the Manila Men to the Delano Grape Strike to today.

Ugat Clothing — Cultural History Why the 4th of July Isn't the Philippines' Independence Day For sixteen years, Filipinos celebrated independence on America's own national holiday. The real story involves a staged battle, a war largely erased from American memory, and a Filipino president who finally set the record straight. Ugat Clothing · Cultural History Series If you ask most Americans what happened in the Philippines around the turn of the twentieth century, you'll likel

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

Philip Vera Cruz

The Watsonville Riots

The Alaskeros: How Filipinos Built the Pacific Northwest — and Paid for It in Blood They arrived in Seattle with nothing. They canned the salmon that fed a nation, picked the apples and hops of the Yakima Valley, wrote the defining novel of the immigrant experience, organized the first Filipino-led union in American history — and two of their leaders were assassinated in broad daylight on orders from a dictator 7,000 miles away. This is the story of Filipinos in the Pacific

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

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)