AANHPI History Calendar

· Oahu, Hawaii

Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

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Filipino workers walked out on Oahu's sugar plantations, soon joined by the Federation of Japanese Labor, in a multiethnic strike of some 8,300 workers demanding higher wages.

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

Sources

  • densho.org densho.org/catalyst/strikers-scabs-sugar-mongers-immigrant-labor-struggle-shaped-hawaii-know-today
  • seiu503.org seiu503.org/oahu-sugar-strike

Also on January 20

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Kamala Harris Sworn In as Vice President

Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President of the United States, becoming the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to hold the office. (Shares Jan 20 with the 1920 Oahu sugar strike.)