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AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930


AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930
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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.
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