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Thus, Filipino American communities developed around United States Navy bases, whose impact can still be seen today. [70] [72] Filipino American communities were also settled near Army and Air Force bases. [70] After World War II, until 1965, half of all Filipino immigrants to the United States were wives of U.S. servicemembers. [15]
1974, Benjamin Menor appointed first Filipino American in a state's highest judiciary office as Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. [115] Thelma Buchholdt is the first Filipino American, and first Asian American, woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, in the Alaska House of Representatives. [116] [117]
Balitang America was the first Filipino-American news program to ever be broadcast across all of North America; it was a 30-minute newscast with a national focus that aired via satellite on TFC and its local affiliate station in the San Francisco Bay Area, KTSF.
A fisherman and courier by day and karaoke master by night, Roland Abante, who is from the Philippines, earned a standing ovation and the coveted four ‘yes’ votes at his audition for America ...
In 1961, the Philippine News was started by Alex Esclamado, which by the 1980s had a national reach and at the time was the largest English-language Filipino newspaper. [142] While many areas with Filipino Americans have local Filipino newspapers, one of the largest concentrations of these newspapers occur in Southern California. [143]
California politicians of Filipino descent (13 P) Pages in category "Filipino-American culture in California" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
The burgeoning Little Manila centered on 1st Avenue and 14th Street, around which there were, at the peak, a number of grocery and video-rental stores and Filipino restaurants within a few blocks of one another. Filipino American community relations were strengthened by local Roman Catholic churches in the East Village and Gramercy Park areas ...
Pages in category "Filipino-American culture" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alaskeros; D.