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By 1946, Stockton's Little Manila was home to the largest Filipino community in the US. In the 1950s and 1960s, large sections of Little Manila were bulldozed by the city to "improve" Stockton's downtown area. A freeway and some fast food establishments displaced many Filipino homes and establishments and disrupted community life.
A Little Manila (Filipino: Munting Maynila or Maliit na Maynila), also known as a Manilatown (Filipino: Bayang Maynila) or Filipinotown (Filipino: Bayang Pilipino), is a community with a large Filipino immigrant and descendant population.
In a section of downtown Los Angeles now known as Little Tokyo, a Filipino community known as Little Manila existed and flourished for over two decades (1920s-40s). The first significant wave of Filipino migration came in 1923, when over 2,000 arrived in California.
Gloria Estefani Alonso Cruz is the environmental justice advocacy coordinator at Little Manila Rising, an organization that serves the South Stockton community to develop equitable solutions to ...
The book "Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong" is a book co-written by Stockton native Gayle Romasanta and Little Manila Rising's co-founder Dr. Dawn Mabalon. It was published in 2018.
Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California [1] (Duke University Press, 2013) by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon [2] is a book with three parts that depict the formation of Filipina/o American identities and community in the Little Manila in Stockton, California during the twentieth century. The ...
The complaint was filed by the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and the groups Little Manila Rising, Restore the Delta and Save California Salmon.
Manilatown was a Filipino American neighborhood in San Francisco (i.e., a Little Manila), which thrived from the 1920s to late 1970s. [1] The district encompassed a three block radius around Kearny and Jackson Streets, next to Chinatown. [2]