song: Maxwell "pretty wings" Filipino immigrants faced special harassment in California during the 1920s and 1930s. In Carlos Bulosans book America Is In the Heart, it chronicles a period betwen 1907 to 1926 when 150000 Filipinos immigrated to the United States to find employment, with a majority of the group landing in Hawaii and California. The Filipinos in California were mostly young unmarried men with little education and few skills, and they hoped to stay for a little while in America,
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