1930s: RACIAL RIOTS SA WESTSIDE

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1930s RACIAL RIOTSSA WESTSIDE

• BY
• Zahra
• Melissa
• Alessandra

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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

• Filipinos called Manila Men settled in the
  marshlands of St.Malo (which is now known as New
  Orleans) in1763.
• The US approved the Pensionado Act in 1903, it
  allowed the intellegent students to come to the
  US to try and get back to the Philippines.
• The passage of the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
  helped pave the wave for the Repatriation Act of
  1935.

Adventurous Americans arrived in the Philippines
and spread to all parts, here shown in Baguio,
previously untouched. Although Americans
interacted with Filipinos in order to "civilize"
them, Filipinos were still held in low regard.
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OK

• The Repatriation Act of 1935 helped the Filipinos
  who were in the United States to leave the US
  with free transportation to go back to the
  Philippines because of the yearly quota system.
• Filipinos in the East and West coast took this
  opportunity to come to the US with their families
  hoping for a better life for themselves.
• Filipinos later on were known for having the
  fastest growing Asian community in the US.

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AND THEN

• Many of the Filipino people had to endure many
  vicious and hateful encounters with the white
  race.
• Being called uncivilized, animals, savages,
  uneducated, and unworthy were just some of the
  derogatory statements that were said on a daily
  bases.
• The white people looked at those types of living
  conditions as unclean, unsanitary and non-human.

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FILIPINOS WERE CONSIDERED

• Rich Flashy
• Womanizers
• Fashionable
• Over-Confident

IN REALITY

• Practical
• Committed
• Hard Working
• Wanted acceptance

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RACISM RIOTS

• Absolutely No Filipinos Allowed signs posted
  everywhere
• No available work besides farming
• Anti-Filipino riots broke out.
• January 23, 1930 Watsonville, CA
• 46 Filipinos beaten near a dance hall
• Fermin Tobera is killed when a vigilante mob
  riddles a farm bunkhouse with gunfire.

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FERMIN TOBERA

• One of 30,000 Filipino men who immigrated to
  America in the 1920s
• Murdered on January 23, 1930 at age 22
• Most famous Filipino victim of white male rage.

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WORKING IN AMERICA

• Replaced Japanese and Chinese workers.
• Regardless, national employers were eager to
  accept them.

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CONDITIONS

• Filipino were exploited
• Lowest paid
• Poorest living conditions
• Stereotyped as stoop labor

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UNIFYING AS ONE!!!

• Met at dance pool halls
• Created a union
• Succeeded in creating a union
• Cannery Workers Farmers motto Unity is
  Strength

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WORK CITED

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  Social History. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons,
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• "Commentary on 1930." American Journey Online
  The Asian American Experience. Primary Source
  Microfilm, 1999. Reproduced in History Resource
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