Manongs on the Central Coast: Forming Communities Across Generations, the first major exhibit in Santa Barbara County on the first two significant waves of Filipino immigrants to this county and its adjacent coastal counties, ends its 10-month run on Sunday, June 22 at Casa de la Guerra in Santa Barbara.
Exhibit contributor and Lompoc native Bing Aradanas, a Filipino American whose early memories from the 1960s-’70s of those first two pioneering generations ranged from Salinas to Montalvo (now South Ventura) — and who taught Filipino-American history at UCSB then Cal Poly SLO 2013-22 — will be on hand to discuss the exhibit’s significance.
Central California played key roles in early Filipino-American history. Some examples:
During World War II, San Luis Obispo and Salinas counties were the two U.S. locations where racially segregated Filipino regiments trained.
The famous United Farm Workers strike of 1965-70 was initiated in Delano by Filipinos, led by veteran union organizer Larry Itliong.
A deadly four-day anti-Filipino riot in Watsonville in 1930 led to the Filipino version of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act).
A key staple of Filipino-American history – “America is in the Heart” (1946) by author Carlos Bulosan – was inspired by events in 1931 Lompoc.
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