[upbeat music] Philip says, "Imagine walking into a bank in the 1930s to deposit your earnings and looking this good."

Where they're showing up the wealthy white establishment, right? And, and I think that it was a form of empowerment to say, "Yeah, like, you know, you might not allow us to buy a house outside of certain neighborhoods, but certainly we can look better than you."

But in Stockton, there was no formal ordinance barring non-white bathers.

So there were opportunities for the Filipino men, the manongs, to go swimming, right? Like, okay, like, people, people are going swimming.

People are playing cards.

People were going dancing.

And I think it speaks to the fact that, that joy is a very powerful thing, especially within the, the context of this very repressive system that they inhabited.