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This city has a history of redlining, which initially shaped segregation among white residents, Filipino residents, and black residents. Filipino Americans reclaimed and reshaped this city following civil rights liberties.
What is Daly City?
This president celebrated the first FAHM at the White House in which 175 Filipino-American community leaders were present for the historic gathering
Who is Barack Obama?
This is the year the next Philippine Presidential electon will be.
What is 2028?
The city where the first Fil-Am neighborhood in the US was created
What is Los Angeles?
Led the Delano Grape Strike in 1965 in California, which helped unite Filipino and Mexican laborers. He was a leader for the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), along with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Larry Itliong Day is on October 25th to commemorate his fight for workers’ rights
Who is Larry Itilong?
The Filipino spirit of communal unity and helping one another.
What is Bayanihan?
The hotel that forcibly evicted its (mostly elderly) residents and then demolished it.
What is the I-hotel?
A historical march in 1942 that highlighted Filipino and American soldiers who fought against Japanese forces while under US command.
What is the Bataan Death March?
This movie takes heavy inspiration from Philippine mythologies and references many Filipino cultural staples. The music composed for the movie was inspired by different indigenous parts of the Philippines, like the Cordillera and Kalinga region, as well as being inspired by the T’boli people in Lake Sebu.
What is Forgotten Island?
City that has the biggest population of Filipinos
What is Los Angeles?
A strike led by Filipino farmworkers who faced racial discrimination in the 1920s
What is the Delano Grape Strike?
On October 9, 2025, this city had an unveiling ceremony for Filipino Town which was built on bayanihan.
Filipinos aboard a Spanish galleon land in what is now called *answer*—the earliest documented Filipino presence in the continental United States. This is why Filipino American History Month is celebrated in October.
*bonus points if you remember the exact date!
What is Morro Bay?
October 18, 1587
The year Congress recognized Filipino American History Month
What is the year 2009?