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Nearly 100 years ago, the first Filipinos arrived in Hawai'i with dreams of prosperity in paradise — or at least the hope of reaping enough income from toiling in sugar cane and pineapple plantation fields to send money home to family.
Most lived in rustic, segregated plantation camps where workers struggled and staged strikes for adequate pay and working conditions. Together, the tightly-knit group watched over its children, who learned that hope for a more prosperous future would come in the form of hard work and higher education.
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Today, as the centennial celebration recounts the journey of that first small boat of immigrants sailing into Honolulu Harbor, Hawai'i's Filipino population is poised to become the largest ethnic group in the state.
Inside this special section are five stories detailing generations of the Filipino experience here as told through the eyes of a young businessman, a retired educator and veteran, a Big Island labor leader, a career nurse and the nation's first Filipino-American governor.
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