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7 stories matching exclud
- Seattle's Filipino Editors Draw a Line: Restrict Us If You Must — But Never Shut Us Out
As agitation builds in Congress to bar Filipinos from the mainland, the editors of Seattle's Filipino Forum weigh the Johnson bill and conclude that a quota, however bitter, is preferable to outright exclusion — which they call an imperialist injustice.
- The Kitchen Is Not the Living Room: A Filipino Columnist Confronts Seattle’s ‘Kind’ Prejudice
In a 1929 column, W. Toerin turns Seattle’s self-image of American kindness back on itself, pointing to the University Y.M.C.A.’s resistance to Filipino students and a Congressman’s push to exclude Filipinos from the United States.
- A Filipino Commissioner Fires Back at the Johnson Bill
Seattle's Filipino community, facing a federal bill to exclude them from the mainland, hears Commissioner Pedro Guevara argue that America owes the Philippines independence before it owes it exclusion.
- A University of Washington Scholar Asks Why Filipino Workers Are Being Pushed Out
In 1928, as Congress weighed excluding Filipinos from the United States, a UW researcher set out to document the migration — and the labor resentments driving it — across Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
- The Filipino Answer to a Labor Organizer’s Exclusion Demand
In 1929, Seattle’s Filipino Forum took on the Central Labor Council’s campaign to bar Filipino workers—and dismantled the racist case line by line.
- Seattle's Labor Council Moves to Shut the Coast to Filipino Workers
In January 1929 the Seattle Central Labor Council opened a drive to bar Filipinos from the mills, fields and steamships — and a Filipino correspondent made sure the insult was answered in the next morning's paper.
- “Close Your Gates to Us — But Give Us Independence First”
A Filipino student in Seattle goes before the Labor Union's legislative committee to head off an exclusion bill, and finds the union men surprisingly reasonable — because independence, he argues, gives them exactly what they want anyway.