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Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A.) is a Chinese American fraternal, benevolent non-profit organization founded in 1895 in San Francisco, California to secure equal rights for Americans of Chinese ancestry and to better the welfare of their communities. C.A.C.A. is the United States' oldest Asian American civil rights organization. [1]
The Houston Lodge of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) was established in 1954. [10] Edward C. M. Chen, the son of E. K. T. Chen, wrote in "An American Chinese in Houston" that this chapter in the 1960s "came into national prominence". [36]
Chan, 60, was recently elected national president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A.), the oldest Asian American civil rights organization. It has 650 members in 20 lodges or ...
A local beauty pageant had been held by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) and the San Francisco Lodge around Independence Day since 1948, [1]: 42 with Penny (Lee) Wong as the first winner (CACA). [2] The 1948 pageant was held in Pleasanton. [3]
Several Asian American groups gathered in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon to call for comedian Shane Gillis to apologize for using “offensive racial remarks” in his ...
Wai Wah Chin, past president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York said, “We’re going to find ourselves in the courts fighting this.” Gregory P. Mango.
In 1904, Lum, Joseph Lum (no relation) and Ng Gunn reorganized the Native Sons of the Golden State (renamed the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, CACA, in 1915) to support Chinese American rights and oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, including a boycott in China of American goods. [2]
The ceremony, which was hosted by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, honored dozens of Chinese American veterans from the New York and New Jersey area who served in World War II.