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)

Larry Itliong: The Filipino Leader Who Started the Grape Strike — and Why You Don't Know His Name

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.