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| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 5 |
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- 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.
- Bremerton's Filipinos Build a Mutual-Aid Society — and a Young Ally Wins Their Hearts
A new Filipino association in Bremerton adopts a platform of unity and self-help, honors a Japanese-American woman who organized their Rizal Day celebration, and sets its sights on Philippine independence.
- Filipino Students Face a Closing Door at American Universities
A Filipino student leader in New York charges that West Coast universities, including the University of Washington, are quietly shutting out Filipino applicants — admitting just one of twenty last year.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- “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.
- 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.
- 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.