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Attracted to agricultural jobs in California's Central Valley, many young Filipino men made their homes in Stockton.The racism and discriminatory laws that persisted until the mid-1960s kept these mostly young men from pursuing the American dream of a US education, a family, and higher economic status, even barring them from crossing Main Street into what was then the exclusively white ...
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.
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (August 17, 1972 – August 10, 2018) was an American academic who worked on documenting the history of Filipino Americans.Mabalon was born in Stockton, and earned her doctoral degree from Stanford University; she later taught at San Francisco State University. [1]
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 Rising sponsored a free health clinic at Trinity Presbyterian Church in south Stockton on Nov. 13, 2022.
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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]
Flora Arca Mata (December 19, 1917 – September 11, 2013) was an American teacher in Stockton, California. She became the first Filipino American teacher in California. [1] In 2019, a new elementary school was named after her in the Stockton Unified School District. [2]