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The Hanapēpē Massacre (also called the Battle of Hanapēpē since both sides were armed) happened on September 9, 1924. Toward the end of a long-lasting strike of Filipino sugar workers on Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, local police shot dead nine strikers and fatally wounded seven, strikers shot and stabbed three sheriffs to death and fatally wounded one; a total of 20 people died.

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[Lead with revisions] The Hanapēpē Massacre (also called the Battle of Hanapēpē) occured on September 9, 1924. Toward the end of a long-lasting strike of Filipino sugar workers on Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, local police shot dead nine strikers and fatally wounded seven, strikers shot and stabbed three sheriffs to death and fatally wounded one; a total of 20 people died.


 * Background of strike --> actors and subsequent death tolls
 * The larger labor movement this event is associated with--> how this event impacted the image of the strike
 * The interracial/inter-ethnic solidarities seen within the Hawaiian labor movement
 * Key contributors/organizers
 * Trial of the strikers
 * Search for the mass graves