San Francisco's International Hotel
Subtitle: mobilizing the Filipino American community in the anti-eviction movement
By: Estella Habal.
Series: Asian American History and Culture
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592134458; 9781592134465
Subjects: Older people -- Housing -- California -- San Francisco.; Eviction -- California -- San Francisco.; Filipino Americans -- California -- San Francisco.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Manilatown, Manongs, and the student radicals; A home or a parking lot : human rights vs. property rights, 1968-1969; Peace with a lease, 1969-1974; The tiger leaps : fighting the Four Seas Investment Corporation, 1974-1977; "Makibaka! dare to struggle!" : the IHTA and the KDP, 1977; People's power vs. propertied elites, 1977; The fall of the I-Hotel, 1977-1979; Conclusion : the rise of the I-Hotel, 1979-2005.