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Archives and Collections

  • KDP @ Univesity of Washington  Labor Archives
  • Carlos Bulosan Book Club
  • Online Archives of California (search Florante Ibanez)
  • Online Archives of California (search Union of Democratic Filipinos)
  • Filipino American Library collection at USC
  • San Francisco Central Library Filipino Reading Room – Abe Ignacio Librarian 
  • eFIL: Filipino Digital Archives and History Center of Hawaii
  • FWC Lovers – Florante Ibanez & Roselyn Estepa
  • Digital Public Library of America search
  • Archives West search (KDP)
  • Ateneo Martial Law Museum and Library (AMLML)

Books

  • A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) 
  • Voices For Justice: Asian Pacific American Organizers and the New Labor Movement by Kent Wong
  • Forbidden Book by Abe Ignacio
  • Wherever There’s a Fight, 10th Anniversary Edition: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California by  Elaine Elinson
  • Estella Habal’s “San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
  • Books by Jacqueline Agtuca
  • Women Against Marcos: Stories of Filipino and Filipino American Women Who Fought a Dictator by Mila De Guzman
  • Nā Kua‘āina: Living Hawaiian Culture by Davianna McGregor
  • Filipinos In “_____________” (various American cities) Images of America – Arcadia Publishing
  • Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in California / Eleanor Lipat-Chesler and Mary Talusan, editors; Maureen Russell, Project Lead Archivist

Videos

  • Rise of the I Hotel 
  • One Generation’s Time: The Legacy of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes
  • Tea and Justice by Ermena Vinluan
  • Being Gay in the KDP: Politics in a Filipino American Revolutionary Organization by Karen Buenavista Hanna
  • Got book? Auntie Helen’s Gift of Books by Florante Peter Ibanez
  • Rise Up: Building the Filipino Movement Through Solidarity Journalism

Articles

  • My Friend, Sixto Carlos Jr. (Feb. 27, 1947 – Sept. 5, 2021) by Rene Ciria-Cruz
  • Chris Mensalvas: Daring to Dream by Gene Viernes
  • Blood in the Fields: The Hanapepe Massacre and the 1924 Filipino Strike by Dean Alegado
  • Genealogy Bank search of newspapers+
  • Articles by Dean Alegado
  • Articles on KDP from Research Gate
  • 10 Things the 1940 Census Reveals about Carlos Bulosan by M.T. Ojeda
  • Publications by Trinity A. Ordona
  • Filipino Americans in the Decade of the International Hotel by Estella Habal (an article in Ten Years That Shook San Francisco: 1968-1978 by Chris Carlsson and Lisa Ruth Elliott
  • Vital Role of Women in the National Democratic Stuggle in the Philippines by Cynthia Maglaya

Photography by Rick Rocamora

  • Martial Law Images: A retrospective
  • Martial law helped define me as a photographer
  • IN PHOTOS: Martial Law activists in US reunite vs Marcos burial
  • Long Road to Dignity

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