AANHPI History Calendar

· Hawaii (territory-wide)

Great Hawaii Sugar Strike

resistance

Some 26,000 sugar workers across 33 of Hawaii's 34 plantations struck for 79 days in the ILWU-led action-the first industry-wide strike in the islands and a turning point that broke the plantations' political power.

Communities
  • Filipino American
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • labor
Event type
  • labor action
Identity lens
  • multiracial
Places
  • Hawaii

Sources

Also on September 1

history

First Buddhist Mission on the US Mainland

Jodo Shinshu missionaries Revs. Shuye Sonoda and Kakuryo Nishijima arrived in San Francisco, founding the Buddhist Mission of North America-forerunner of the Buddhist Churches of America and the first enduring Buddhist institution on the US mainland. (Shares Sep 1 with the 1946 Great Hawaii Sugar Strike.)