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Forgotten Annapolis Immigration Conflict Uncovered by UMD Archaeology

Filipinos and Blacks Competed, Quarreled, Married in 20th Century
June 11, 2012

COLLEGE PARK - University of Maryland archaeologists are uncovering a forgotten period of racial tension in Annapolis pitting Filipino immigrants against African Americans.

The surprisingly complex relations between the groups go back a century, occasionally marked by violence, but also by considerable social mixing and even...