International Hotel (I-Hotel) Anti-Eviction Organizing Materials
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Title: International Hotel (I-Hotel) Anti-Eviction Organizing Materials
Dates: July 1976 to September 1978
Collection Number: FA-DOC 063
Creator/Collector:
The Berkeley Barb
The Black Panther
Committee Against Nihonmachi Eviction (CANE)
Common Sense
El Tecolote
Getting Together
International Hotel Tenants Association (IHTA)
July 4th Coalition
Kearny Street Workshop
May First Workers Organization
The New Voice
Revolutionary Communist Party
San Francisco Progress
Support Committee for the International Hotel
The Worker
Workers Committee to Fight for the International Hotel and Victory Building
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Odalisque
Extent: Three boxes
Repository:
Freedom Archives
San Francisco, California 94110
Abstract: This collection contains items related to the organizing efforts to keep residents in the International Hotel in San Francisco’s
Manilatown neighborhood. The Four Seas Corporation bought the hotel and in 1968 began seeking to evict the residents in order
to build a parking lot on the site. Residents organized and struggled to stay in their homes from 1968-1977. Final evictions
were carried out in 1977 aided by local government and law enforcement. Continued community organizing after eviction prevented
the corporation from constructing their planned development, even after the building was demolished in 1981.
Language of Material: English
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Donated to the Freedom Archives by Paul Cox who participated in the organizing efforts to save the I Hotel.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes flyers, pamphlets, legal documents, tenant association by-laws, internal strategy notes, a draft
manuscript and newspaper clippings addressing a two-year time period from 1976-1978. Materials from the year prior to eviction
document the creation and work of the International Hotel Tenants Association (IHTA), communication between IHTA committees,
interaction with supporting activist organizations from outside the I-Hotel community, and communication with city officials.
The year following eviction includes the sustained efforts of the IHTA and other organizations to prevent the demolition of
the building and to return the residents to the hotel, including the campaign to pass a local proposition to save the hotel,
and actions to physically block demolition.
Gentrification
Asian-American
Filipino-American
Housing
International Hotel (I Hotel)
San Francisco