Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught
USA • October 2026. Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught. filipino american history month, fahm, fanhs, fred cordova, dorothy cordova, morro bay 1587, luzones indios, mel orpilla, vallejo, s.res. 298, h.res. 780, white house fahm 2015, fil-am history, decolonization, 10/18. Community • FAHM 2026 Who Built Filipino American History Month? The Archivists, the Galleon, and the Fight to Be Taught October was not handed to us by Washington. Two Seattle archivists, a 1587 landing at Morro Bay, and three decades of volunteers built it, and Congress caught up later. PinoyBuilt illustration — a landing boat, an archive box, and the four centuries between them. Not an archival photograph. I arrived in Vallejo in June 1979, a Marikina kid by way of three Chicago winters, and at Springstowne Junior High I casually knew Phillip Orpilla. I did not know of his brother Mel until Facebook, sometim...
