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The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority Irish population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877.
J. G. Day, party vice president; H. L. Knight, party secretary; Isaac Smith Kalloch, Mayor of San Francisco (1879–1881) Washburne R. Andrus, Mayor of Oakland (1878–1880), candidate for Lieutenant Governor (1879) James R. Toberman, Mayor of Los Angeles (1872–1874, 1878–1882) William Jefferson Hunsaker, Mayor of San Diego (1888)
Denis Kearney (1847–1907) was a California labor leader from Ireland who was active in the late 19th century and was known for his anti-Chinese activism. [1] [2] Called "a demagogue of extraordinary power," [3] he frequently gave long and caustic speeches that focused on four general topics: contempt for the press, for capitalists, for politicians, and for Chinese immigrants.
Last fall, Ting and several other Chinese American leaders recruited and endorsed David Lee, a community organizer and political science professor at San Francisco State University, to challenge ...
The driver was bleeding from his head as he exited the vehicle yelling about the C.C.P., an abbreviation for the Chinese Communist Party, Sergii Molchanov said. San Francisco police arrived on scene a
The party was founded on 10 October 1925 in San Francisco, and was led by Chen Jiongming and Tang Jiyao, two ex-Kuomintang warlords that went into opposition. Their first platform was federalism and multi-party democracy. The party moved its headquarters to the then-British colony of Hong Kong in 1926.
In November, John Chan — who chairs the American Chinese Commerce Association — led an effort to drown out the cries of protesters in San Francisco who were awaiting the arrival of Chinese ...
The Red Guard Party was a Chinese-American youth organization formed in February 1969. ... San Francisco's Chinatown was plagued with poverty and overcrowding, ...