The HSPA awarded a three-year labor contract to #Filipinos migrating to Hawaii; this paid their passage to Hawaii and guaranteed free subsistence and clothing
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@equalisource.bsky.socialThe HSPA awarded a three-year labor contract to #Filipinos migrating to Hawaii; this paid their passage to Hawaii and guaranteed free subsistence and clothing
@global-news-2024.bsky.socialđź“° Solar power booms in Philippines as war on Iran spikes energy costs
With Southeast Asia's largest electricity bills rising even higher, Filipinos invest in rooftop panels.
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@equalisource.bsky.socialThe largest group of #Filipinos, of 109, lived in New Orleans, the remnants of a 19th-century settlement of #Filipino sailors who came ashore at that port city, married local women, and found jobs.
@equalisource.bsky.socialThe Jones act provided that during a transitional period, executive power would remain with an American appointed governor-general while #Filipinos elected members to the Assembly and to the newly established Senate
@netasgardusa.bsky.socialPhilippines — Phivolcs warns of potential 5.5-meter tsunami due to movement in Manila Trench #Philippines #Manila #Filipinos #News #Breaking
@americanourstory.bsky.socialA perhaps unexpected form of discrimination for immigrants arriving after 1965 was the hostility that they met from second-generation #Filipinos who saw the new arrivals as snobs and upstarts who were benefitting from advances made by the older group.
@en-ph.pds.netasgard.comFilipinos — Four Filipinos, including three in ICU, hurt in Riyadh airport attack #Riyadh #SaudiArabia #Saudi #Filipinos #News
@globalvisibility.bsky.social@globalvisibility.bsky.social@equalisource.bsky.socialThe more highly educated fourth-wave #Filipinos know the value of good health care and have utilized the medical services available to them.
@equalisource.bsky.socialThe opportunity for most #Filipinos to become American citizens before 1946 was closed to them by the United States Supreme Court in its 1925 decision, Toyota v. United States.
@equalisource.bsky.socialIn 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order that opened the way for #Filipinos to work in government and in war industries
@equalisource.bsky.socialIn 1946, Congress passed a law that permitted #Filipinos to qualify for American citizenship.
@equalisource.bsky.socialIn 1937, the United States Attorney General restated that #Filipinos were American nationals and thus eligible for employment on Works Progress Administration projects. However, they could not receive preference because they were not citizens.
@equalisource.bsky.socialIn 1948, the California Supreme Court ruled in Perez v. Sharp that the miscegenation law violated individual civil rights, thus freeing #Filipinos to marry whomever they pleased.
@equalisource.bsky.socialThe West, as reported in the 1990 Census, had 991,572, or 68.4 % of the #Filipinos.
@jckaelin.bsky.social#DavidBowie said #Fanny was "extraordinary... as important as anybody else who's ever been, ever"
#OTD #TDIH #October1: Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! #FAHM #FilipinoAmericanHeritageMonth #FilipinoAmericans #FilipinaAmericans #Filipinos #Filipinas #BeautifulPeople #MusicSky
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@equalisource.bsky.socialA perhaps unexpected form of discrimination for immigrants arriving after 1965 was the hostility that they met from second-generation #Filipinos who saw the new arrivals as snobs and upstarts who were benefitting from advances made by the older group.
@equalisource.bsky.socialUnlike pre-war immigrants who largely worked as unskilled laborers in West Coast and #Hawaiian agriculture and in Alaska's salmon canneries, the third wave was composed of larger numbers of well-educated #Filipinos who came looking for better career opportunities