(KRON) -- In this episode of "FYI," KRON4 News Anchor Stephanie Lin discusses Filipino American History.
We sit down with Professor Bernard Remollino with the Filipino American National Historical Society. Also, KRON4 Digital Producer Aaron Tolentino shares his experience growing up in the Bay Area as a child of Filipino immigrants.
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Roseller (Ariel) Tolentino and Anna Tolentino (far right) pose for a photo in Daly City, Calif. The latter's two younger siblings, Froilan Esteron and Arlene Dela Cruz, also moved to San Francisco in the 1980s.
KRON4's Stephanie Lin sat down with Professor Bernard Remollino with the Filipino American National Historical Society.
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More than 430 years ago, Filipino people first arrived in North America. In 1587, sailors arrived at Morro Bay in Southern California as part of the Spanish trans-Pacific expeditions when the Spanish Empire mapped the Pacific Ocean.
This was more than two hundred years before California would become a U.S. state. Fast forward to the 1920s, Filipino people started moving in mass to California.
They developed strong communities in Los Angeles, and farmers sought stable work in the Central Valley.
However, it was San Francisco and the Bay Area that would act as their main port of entry for life in America.
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