FEBRUARY 17, 2009: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act became effective, providing a one-time $15,000 lump sum payment to surviving World War II Filipino veterans. Many of those veterans resided in San Francisco and lived at the Gran Oriente Filipino Hotel.

FEBRUARY 17, 2009: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act became effective, providing a one-time $15,000 lump sum payment to surviving World War II Filipino veterans. Many of those veterans resided in San Francisco and lived at the Gran Oriente Filipino Hotel.

In 1921 forty Filipino merchant marines pooled their money to purchase a 1907 Victorian house in South Park, a Japanese enclave within SoMa[1]. Until 1946…

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FEBRUARY 15, 1934: The San Francisco Unified School District established the San Francisco Junior College, known today as City College of San Francisco. 

FEBRUARY 15, 1934: The San Francisco Unified School District established the San Francisco Junior College, known today as City College of San Francisco. 

In response to the Great Depression[1], and with available federal and state funding, Archibald Cloud, the Chief Deputy Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School…

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