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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.
In Taipei, Little Manila is located in Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District. Shops and stalls that cater the needs of the Filipino expatriates were established near the Saint Christopher's Roman Catholic Church as most of the church goers are Filipinos or locals with Filipino lineage.
Little Manila Rising sponsored a free health clinic at Trinity Presbyterian Church in south Stockton on Nov. 13, 2022.
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]
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]
Mata was born in Honolulu, to Jose Arca and Victoria Salcedo, [3] who were from Cavite and Bacolod respectively. [4] Mata's family moved to Stockton when she was two; [5] they were attracted to Stockton because of Little Manila, which had one of the largest Filipino communities in the United States at the time. [6]
Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong (October 25, 1913 – February 1977 [a]), also known as "Seven Fingers", [3] was a Filipino-American union organizer.He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the ...