Filipino sailors found the St. Malo and Manila Village settlements in Louisiana. The St. Malo settlement existed for more than 150 years.
Several accounts of early Filipino sailors and settlers in the United States, including Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, an early resident of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
The Pensionado Act was passed by the U.S. Government in order to provide funds for Filipino students to study at American universities. The University of Washington had the highest Filipino enrollment of any U.S. college.
Japanese laborers strike for higher wages. Filipinos are recruited to take the place of the Japanese.
The 1879 Naturalization Act was amended by the U.S. Supreme Court in order to prohibit naturalization by additional, non-Chinese Asian immigrants.
Two hundred and nine Pensionados graduated from U.S. schools between the programÕs inception in 1903 and 1912.
California passed the Alien Land Law. Land ownership and leasing by Filipinos and other non-citizens became illegal.
More than 10,350 Filipino workers were in Hawaii, which was nearly one-quarter of the total Hawaiian plantation workforce.
Three hundred white laborers destroyed a Filipino worker camp and beat thirty Filipino workers in Exeter, CA on October 24. Two hundred Filipino workers fled the area.
Race riots took place in several California communities. A riot in Watsonville erupted because a group of white Watsonville residents was angered by the prospect of white women dancing with Filipino men at a dance hall. Hundreds of white men destroyed the living quarters of Filipino workers and beat many Filipinos, resulting in one death. In other communities, such as Stockton, Reedley, San Jose and San Francisco, white workers rioted because they resented the competition and what they perceived to be the undercutting of wages by Filipino workers. In many cases, rioters beat Filipino workers and destroyed their living quarters.
More than forty-five thousand Filipinos resided in the United States, thirty-thousand of which live in California. Filipinos became the largest ethnic work force in Hawaii.
California's anti-miscegenation law was amended to include members of the "Malay" race, which included Filipinos. All marriages between Filipinos and whites that took place prior to the change are invalidated.
The Tydings-McDuffie Law was passed by the U.S. Congress on March 24, creating the Philippine Commonwealth. Filipino immigration to the U.S., except Hawaii, was restricted to only fifty Filipinos per year.
The U.S. Congress passed the Repatriation Act. Only 2,190 Filipinos returned to the Philippines.
U.S. law was amended so that Filipinos could join the military and be drafted. Furthermore, non-citizen members of the military became eligible for citizenship. Almost nine thousand Filipinos joined the armed forces.
The War Brides Act was passed, which allowed Filipina wives of U.S. soldiers to legally immigrate to the United States.
Congress passed the Rescission Act of 1946, which denied full military benefits to the more than 250,000 Filipinos who served in the U.S. armed forces.
The "Sakada '46," a group of more than 7,300 Filipino laborers, were granted an exemption by the U.S. government and allowed to immigrate to Hawaii in order to work on the plantations.
The Filipino Naturalization Bill, which enabled Filipinos to become citizens, became law.
More than 3,500 Filipino "war brides" immigrated to California in the five years since passage of the War Brides Act.
The Immigration Act of 1965 was passed. United States immigration quotas were overhauled.
The Immigration Act of 1990 was passed by the U.S. Congress. Citizenship and limited military benefits were granted to some Filipinos who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War Two.