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The stories of Filipino Americans who made their homes in the Pajaro Valley in the early 20th century, and the challenges they faced, are not commonly taught in U.S. history courses, but their stories are currently on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History through Aug. 4.
The founding Watsonville area Filipino families lent their family artifacts to UC Santa Cruz's first digital archive documenting the history of 12 families still living on the Central Coast.
AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930 © Pajaro Valley Historical Association filipino farm workers in the salinas valley In the early part of the 20th century, Filipinos were U.S. nationals with a legal right to work on the Central Coast. But many of them still faced discrimination and hostility. It boiled over into violence on Jan. 19, 1930, in Watsonville, when Filipino field workers were attacked, beaten and even killed. "At one point the dance hall was over here somewhere," said Frank Malodora, while he points to an empty lot at the end of Beach Road in Pajaro outsi...
By Raymond Douglas Chong, AsAmNews Staff Writer A few miles from Monterey Bay on the Central Coast of California, Watsonville is the heart of Pajaro Valley, a lush farmland. But for five days in 1930, Watsonville was engulfed by an Anti-Filipino Race Riot. Roy Recio, son a Filipino farmworker, will present a webinar, on Saturday, January 23, 2021: Watsonville Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. Please join this community Talk Story presentation and discussion to learn about the events and neglected history of the 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots, which took plac...