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14 stories
- A Clubhouse Dream Dies on 12th Avenue
In 1923, Seattle’s University Filipino Club thought it had a deal for a $39,500 headquarters. Then the owner added interest charges—and neighbors made clear they did not want Filipino residents next door.
- A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget
At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.
- The Clubhouse Seattle Would Not Rent
In 1923, a landlord was talked out of leasing a house to Filipino students after a University of Washington professor objected to living near them—prompting an editorial demand for a permanent home the community could call its own.
- Seattle’s Filipino Community Remembers a Martyr
Thirty-two years after José Rizal’s execution, Seattle’s Filipino organizations staged a literary-musical tribute at Broadway Auditorium—with a University of Washington scholar as guest of honor.
- When Seattle First Flew the Philippine Flag
A six-day Filipino fraternal convention fills Washington Hall, the Eagles Auditorium and the Olympic Hotel—and puts the Philippine flag over Seventh Avenue for the first time in the city’s history.
- The Quiet Closing of the YMCA Door on Filipino Students
A new University Y.M.C.A. rule stripped Filipino students of campus letter boxes and social-room privileges they had long enjoyed.
- Should Seattle Have a Filipino Labor Commissioner?
A 1923 community-paper debate pits a call for Filipino labor representation against a columnist who says the workers should simply go home.
- The $50 Fee That Thinned Filipino Enrollment at the U.W.
A Filipino community leader reports only forty students enrolled at the University of Washington, blaming rigid scholarship rules and a new non-resident charge imposed on Filipino students.
- Seattle’s Forgotten Filipino Poets—and the Prejudice They Turned into Verse
A 1928 Filipino Forum essay introduces Narciso Ines and a circle of Northwest poets writing beauty and protest from the margins of Seattle life.
- The Electric-Pencil Inventor Who Left Seattle's Filipino Colony Holding Shares
Juan Urbano sold his interest in the World Novelty Co. and moved away, leaving local Filipino investors without the countryman who had led the company.
- Seattle's Filipino Community Nearly Lets Rizal Day Slip
A local editorial asks why no one is organizing the annual celebration of the Philippines' national hero—and who will foot the bill.
- A Clubhouse for Community: Filipino Seattleites Organize to Buy a Home Base
The University Filipino Club moves toward purchasing a lot and house, seeking a permanent space to solve 'serious problems' together—not to separate from the city but to meet it.
- Broke at the End of Every Cannery Season: A Filipino Columnist's Plea for a Savings System
Writing for Seattle's Filipino community in 1928, Macario C. Rebodos traces the hard cycle of Alaskan cannery work and agricultural harvests — money earned, money spent, and pawnshops waiting at the end of it — and argues that an endowment policy is the only discipline that will break it.
- The Chinese Girl Barred From the Y.W.C.A. Pool
In a 1926 essay, a Chinese writer catalogues American prejudice—segregated Y.M.C.A.s, a church donor’s daughter turned away from a swimming pool, and lecturers who twist China to fit their biases.