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Philip Vera Cruz in a Boycott Meeting
Philip Vera Cruz (center) and unidentified men at a boycott meeting, circa 1970s.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 5
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AWOC Members in the Delano Grape Strike
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) members picketing in front of Filipino Community Hall as part of the Delano Grape Strike on September 24, 1965.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 5
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Seattle Times Editorial
A newspaper called The Seattle Times wrote an editorial on its front page that described Filipino migrants as a “problem.” This shows that even in the early 20th century, many Americans had racist attitudes toward Filipino immigrants.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Seattle Times Front Page
A newspaper called The Seattle Times wrote an editorial on its front page that described Filipino migrants as a “problem.” This shows that even in the early 20th century, many Americans had racist attitudes toward Filipino immigrants.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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“I Want the Wide American Earth”
Carlos Bulosan’s signed poem, “I Want the Wide American Earth,” as part of a fundraiser for Local 37 officers’ legal defense fund, who were facing deportation.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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“Freedom From Want”
A reproduction of The Saturday Evening Post showing Carlos Bulosan’s essay and Norman Rockwell’s painting side-by-side sheds light on the systemic inequities people experience in America.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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On Becoming Filipino
Pictured is the cover of another book of Carlos Bulosan’s On Becoming Filipino, which compiles many of Bulosan’s writings on his experience as a Filipino in America.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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America Is In The Heart 2014 Edition
Pictured here is the cover of Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart. On the left is the 1973 edition and on the right is the 2014 edition.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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America Is In The Heart 1973 Edition
Pictured here is the cover of Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart. On the left is the 1973 edition and on the right is the 2014 edition.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union Local 37
The county’s first Filipino-led Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union Local 37 fought for fair treatment and rights, shaping the 1950s labor movement. Carlos Bulosan and Chris Mensalvas, former union leaders, alongside fellow workers in this photo.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Filipino Cannery Workers
A 1937 image of Filipino cannery workers by Alitak cannery near Akhiok, Alaska captures faces of the manong generation.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Filipino Alaskeros
Filipino salmon processing workers, known as “Alaskeros,” faced a difficult seasonal migratory lifestyle, spending summers in Alaska, and then working in the “farm factories” of California and eastern Washington during other seasons, to support themselves and their families.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Filipino Man Processes Fruit
An anonymous Filipino man working to process fruit, circa 1930, illustrates the hard labor and low wages that many Filipino immigrants faced during this time in the United States.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Carlos Bulosan in a Suit
Rare photo of Carlos Bulosan from the era he wrote his semi-autobiographical novel, America Is in the Heart, c. 1945.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Carlos Bulosan at a Desk
Carlos Bulosan, pictured at his desk with typewriter and manuscripts, c. 1955 in Seattle, Washington, continued to write in his final years despite facing censorship and isolation as a consequence of his activism.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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UFW Strikers in Delano
As the United Farm Workers resumed strike activities against Delano’s table grape growers, Filipino American UFW members rejoined their union brothers and sisters on the picket lines, Delano, 1973.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 3
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Family Labor Camp in Delano
Labor camp life in the fields, with Raymund Pacis Barney (center back). Lucena L. Barney (center front) with John L. Barney, Filomena (Navaro) Fernandez (married to Zuilo Fernandez). Delano, 1940s.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 3
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Aremas Family Baptism Group Photo
Baptism for Susan Aremas (center being held by her aunt), and her mother Sherry (left of her), in the Salinas Labor Camp, circa 1940s. Two or more families at the camps would often share one small bunkhouse.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 3
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Natividad Ballesteros Edillor and Coworkers at Lucas Camp
Natividad Ballesteros Edillor (kneeling, second from left), with her female coworkers at Lucas Camp with camp foreman Bob Armington (standing, fourth from left), ca. 1960.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 3
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Cornelia Delute Selling Wares to Manongs
Cornelia Delute speaking with local farmworkers as her children in the photograph pose in front of the camera. Cornelia carries the container with her homemade binangkal (sesame bread) and suman (rice cake). Delano, circa 1950s.
Featured in:
Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 3
