4th of July Filipino Women's Club Car in Downtown Watsonville

A car decorated for the Fourth of July parade by the Filipino Women's Club of Watsonville. From left to right are: Mary Ragsac, Connie Ramirez, Louella Carrillo, and Grace Silga.

Tony Callahan

1957

Juanita Sulay Wilson

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For more information on Filipino women's club and other forms of community:

Karis Lee, "The Filipino Women's Club of Washington D.C.," Boundary Stones, 2020. https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/03/20/filipino-womens-club-washington-dc

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Little Manila Is in the Heart : The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Durham: Duke University Press (2013).

Rudy P. Guevarra. Becoming Mexipino : Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press (2012).

8 x 10 inches

Still Image

SUL.2021.88

Photograph