Keyword(s): Cynthia Mejia-Giudici
Carlos Bulosan was a prolific writer and poet, best remembered as the author of America Is in the Heart, a landmark semi-autobiographical story about the Filipino immigrant experience. Bulosan gained ...
With an estimated population of 30,000 (in the late 1990s), the Filipino American community forms the largest group of Asian Americans in the Seattle area. Beginning with the first known Filipino resi...
As early as the 1920s, Filipinos from Seattle were contracted to work in Alaskan canneries. The canneries offered summer work for students to pay for their studies. In 1930, more than 4,000 of these "...
On April 30, 1940, Pio de Cano, an important Filipino figure in Seattle, wins a a key case enabling Filipinos to purchase land. He contested the application of the 1921 Alien Land Law to Filipinos.
In 1956, Carlos Bulosan, prominent Filipino writer, poet, and union activist, dies in Seattle of tuberculosis.
In August 1978, the Seattle City Council appoints Dolores Sibonga (b.1931), the first Filipina American lawyer in Washington state, to the Seattle City Council. She is elected the following March and ...
On June 1, 1981, Seattle-based Filipino American labor activists Gene Viernes (1951-1981) and Silme Domingo (1952-1981) of Local 37 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union are mur...
On June 7, 1981, Dr. Jose Rizal Park and Bridge, named for the Philippine national hero, are dedicated by Mayor Charles Royer (b. 1939) and Philippine Consul General Ernesto A. Querubin. The park and ...
On November 3, 1992, Velma Veloria is elected to the Washington State Legislature. She is the first Filipina elected to a state legislature in the continental United States. She will serve for 12 year...
On April 14, 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1946) appoints Robert Santos (1934-2016), Filipino American community activist, as the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary's representative...