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The Exeter Anti-Filipino Riots occurred in Exeter, California on October 24, 1929, and target Filipino farming communities. The main motivation of the anti-Filipino sentiment was economic. Filipino workers were willing to work for lower wages than other immigrant and union workers. Another motivation behind the anti-Filipino sentiment was that of the Filipino workers most of them were men which encouraged the Filipino men to socialize with women outside of their own race. In October of 1929, Filipino men and white women attended a street carnival in Exeter and a riot broke out resulting in a white man being stabbed. Local police responded by assembling white vigilantes and lead them into the Filipino farming communities where they beat and stoned Filipinos.
Aftermath The incident at Exeter contributed to more anti-Filipino sentiment in Watsonville, a town on California's coast. The Filipino Exclusion Act of 1934 was passed by both the US House of Representative and the Senate.