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Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrants

  • Written by Sam Vong, Curator of Asian Pacific American History, Smithsonian Institution
Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrantsA Filipino man poses next to a Ford Model A in the 1930s.Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

In 2005, Antonio Somera, a Filipino American member of the Legionarios del Trabajo, a Masonic fraternal order, stumbled across a trove of mysterious-looking containers while he was cleaning out the...

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