The Magazine of Filipinos Abroad November, 1932
An excerpt by Emeterio C. Cruz:
“Any city of your new adoption affords you an endless field of observation and enjoyment as you visualize a brilliant and substantial future for which you have so longed to attain. And this is the feeling the Filipino new-comer experiences when he first sees Seattle.”
This brief article outlines the promise and peril of America and Seattle to a new immigrant in 1932.
Why are his prospects so limited? Why is his community divided?
Does this historic view reflect continuing segregation, discrimination and lack of opportunity in Seattle and the US today?