Aladina Cawaling Standing Around Flowers

A photograph of Aladina Cawaling standing around flowers near her family home on Calabasas road.

Unknown

c. 1960s

Loren Cawaling

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For more information on labor struggles in the Filipino community:

Hinnershitz, Stephanie. “‘We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice’: The Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers’ Union and Filipino Civil Rights in the United States, 1927-1937.” Journal of Social History 47, no. 1 (2013): 132–52.

De Witt, Howard A. “The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930: A Case Study of the Great Depression and Ethnic Conflict in California.” Southern California Quarterly 61, no. 3 (1979): 291–302. https://doi.org/10.2307/41170831.

Showalter, Michael P. “The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930: A Reconsideration of Fermin Tobera’s Murder.” Southern California Quarterly 71, no. 4 (1989): 341–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171455.

3.5 x 3.5 inches

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CAW.2021.10

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