Taldiap: Sakada, Nagpuonan ti Filipino nangruna Dagiti Ilokano tapno madanon ti Hawaii

Although federal legislation to allow "war brides" after World War II enabled veterans to bring home wives from the Philippines, few Filipinas were allowed into the United States before then, due to immigration restrictions that were intermittently relaxed. As a result, Filipino men often had to look outside their culture for companionship, as this vintage photo at the National Steinbeck Center shows. But interracial relations sometimes provided the excuse for brutal and sometimes deadly backlash from those who blamed the lower-paid Filipinos for the loss of their jobs, such as the 1930 riot in Watsonville that saw a mob of several hundred whites hunt and beat Filipinos in the streets.