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| Year | Stories |
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| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
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- 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 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.
- “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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- A Filipino Writer Confronts Exclusion — and the Seattle Times — in 1926
A local column challenges a Filipino student's call for exclusion, calls for cross-racial labor solidarity in the Pacific Northwest, and rebuts the Seattle Daily Times on Philippine independence.
- 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.
- 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.