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| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 7 |
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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.
- Ninety-Eight More Arrive — and Some Already Regret It
The Filipino Forum asks whether anything can stop the stream of young Filipinos crossing the Pacific for Seattle, even as new arrivals discover the hardship the papers warned them about.
- 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.
- A Filipino Editor Fires Back at Arthur Brisbane Over Philippine Independence
When the great American columnist claimed Filipinos had abandoned their fight for freedom over a sugar tariff, the Filipino Forum answered: courtesy to a departing governor is not surrender.
- The Filipino Community That Organized Like Fireworks and Vanished Like Smoke
Seattle's Filipino editor calls out a pattern of flashy associations that burn bright, elect officers before the election, and leave nothing behind but speeches.
- “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.
- Counting the Invisible: A Census of Filipinos in the Pacific Northwest
A 1929 study estimates roughly 7,000 Filipino workers scattered from Seattle to Alaska — and admits the numbers are guesswork, because many hid their identities from the people counting them.
- Bremerton's Filipinos Organize, and a Japanese Host Preaches Solidarity
At an informal dinner in Bremerton, a new Filipino Progressive Association installs its officers — and hears a local Japanese businessman argue that the 'brown race' can only reach its goals through Filipino-Japanese unity.
- 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.
- 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.