A Filipino American Story Since 1587 — Transcript

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1. 0:00a filipino-american story before the
2. 0:04founding of America even before the
3. 0:07settlement of Jamestown
4. 0:08there were Filipinos in what is now
5. 0:10known as the continental United States
6. 0:12throughout history Filipino Americans
7. 0:15have led movements confronted and
8. 0:18justices and have created world shaking
9. 0:20ideas they disrupt so why is their
10. 0:23history largely untold we must tell them
11. 0:26to unsettle the pages of US history they
12. 0:29reveal who we are as Americans people
13. 0:34from the Philippines which was under
14. 0:36Spain first landed in California as part
15. 0:38of the Spanish galleons on future
16. 0:40sailings many jumped ship to form
17. 0:43settlements in what would be known as
18. 0:44Louisiana it is a fact Filipino
19. 0:47Americans have been in the United States
20. 0:49for centuries in 1898 the United States
21. 0:54entered into war against Spain and took
22. 0:56possession of the Philippines
23. 0:57Ping's Spain 20 million dollars to
24. 1:00rationalize colonization American
25. 1:03officials referred to this as benevolent
26. 1:05assimilation claiming to protect
27. 1:07filipinos rights and liberties but the
28. 1:10Filipino people were already fighting
29. 1:12for independence from Spain resisted us
30. 1:15colonization this was known as the
31. 1:17philippine-american war fought with
32. 1:19extreme violence General Jacob H Smith
33. 1:22notoriously ordered his soldiers to kill
34. 1:24every Filipino boy over 10 years old
35. 1:27many Americans oppose this including
36. 1:30Mark Twain and the African American
37. 1:32buffalo soldiers who were sent to the
38. 1:34Philippines for battle somehow America
39. 1:37needed to justify this war they even
40. 1:39transported some Filipinos to the 1904
41. 1:42st. Louis World's Fair for display
42. 1:45erased from our history The Forgotten
43. 1:47War became the catalyst of Filipino
44. 1:49migration to the u.s. because of the
45. 1:52Philippines Colonials
46. 1:54this the people became a major source of
47. 1:56cheap labor and so Filipinos migrated to
48. 1:59Hawaii as early as 1906 to work in sugar
49. 2:03plantations by the 1920s many Filipino
50. 2:06laborers also came to the west coast to
51. 2:08become a driving force behind America's
52. 2:11agricultural industry but many of these
53. 2:13labor migrants were met with racial
54. 2:15hostility white Americans accused
55. 2:18Filipino men of stealing their jobs and
56. 2:21women Filipinos face down mobs beatings
57. 2:25and murder yet they resisted this
58. 2:27oppression Filipino towns such as
59. 2:29Stockton's little Manila were formed to
60. 2:31serve as safe havens up and down the
61. 2:33west coast labor strikes demanded fair
62. 2:35wages and working conditions under
63. 2:38pressure Congress greatly restricted the
64. 2:40migration of Filipinos and promised
65. 2:42independence for the Philippines through
66. 2:45it all Filipinos continued to persevere
67. 2:48world war ii was a time of great
68. 2:51upheaval for both the philippines and
69. 2:53Filipino Americans Japan bombed American
70. 2:56bases in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor and
71. 2:59in the Philippines prompting the u.s. to
72. 3:01enter the war as a colony the
73. 3:03Philippines allied with America
74. 3:05President Roosevelt established the
75. 3:07United States Armed Forces in the Far
76. 3:09East to enlist nearly 250,000 Filipinos
77. 3:13into the u.s. armed forces a decisive
78. 3:16move that helped win the Pacific Theater
79. 3:18after the war America granted
80. 3:21independence to the Philippines
81. 3:22Filipinos who joined the armed forces in
82. 3:25the u.s. gained the right to citizenship
83. 3:27Filipino veterans in the Philippines
84. 3:29were promised citizenship as well and
85. 3:31military benefits
86. 3:32however the passing of the 1946
87. 3:36rescission Act broke that promise for
88. 3:38many of those veterans
89. 3:42American military bases remained in the
90. 3:45Philippines fork routing Filipinos at
91. 3:48one point there were more Filipinos in
92. 3:50the u.s. needy than the Philippine Navy
93. 3:52many of these Navy sailors came to
94. 3:55America Filipino women married to u.s.
95. 3:58military men also migrated to the u.s.
96. 4:00these women raised families bought land
97. 4:03and created communities they built the
98. 4:06next generation of Filipino Americans in
99. 4:101965 an important legislation greatly
100. 4:13expanded immigration quotas by 1970 the
101. 4:17Filipino population had ballooned in a
102. 4:19decade it had more than doubled
103. 4:21many of these new immigrants were women
104. 4:23and professionals in the 60s Filipino
105. 4:30Americans fought for equality alongside
106. 4:32black power and Chicano movements in
107. 4:35California Lari it Liang Phillip
108. 4:38Veracruz and other organizers led a
109. 4:40strike against great businesses
110. 4:42Filipinos convinced SR Chavez in his
111. 4:45association to join the strike Filipinos
112. 4:48started the 1965 delano grape strike and
113. 4:51together with Latinos they had one of
114. 4:53the most successful strikes against
115. 4:55agribusiness in history the younger
116. 4:58generation were also in revolt San
117. 5:00Francisco State University and UC
118. 5:02Berkeley students including young
119. 5:04Filipino Americans led a strike that
120. 5:07established ethnic studies many other
121. 5:09groups organized to serve the Filipino
122. 5:11American community there are now over 4
123. 5:17million Filipinos in the United States
124. 5:20founds the Filipino American National
125. 5:23Historical Society tells the stories of
126. 5:25the Filipino American experience
127. 5:27established in 1982 by Dorothy LIGO
128. 5:31Cordova and Fred Cordova Phan saw the
129. 5:33value in documenting Filipino American
130. 5:36history honoring October as Filipino
131. 5:38American History Month and why would it
132. 5:41be Filipino Americans persevere for a
133. 5:44just and prosperous society known
134. 5:46the stakes whether they excel in public
135. 5:48service had the Filipino food movement
136. 5:53inspire us as sports heroes and as
137. 5:56creative artists whether they spark
138. 5:58innovation across industries lead
139. 6:01movements for justice fight for national
140. 6:04recognition and the Congressional Gold
141. 6:06Medal for Filipino World War two
142. 6:08veterans Filipino Americans disrupt and
143. 6:12their stories cannot fade no matter what
144. 6:15forces make us forget we recover them
145. 6:17reveal and speak about their stories
146. 6:20because as we make history we must also
147. 6:24tell it to the world
148. 6:26[Music]
149. 6:38[Music]
150. 6:51you