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  2. Tong Wars - Wikipedia

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    While a loose alliance, consisting of the Chinatown police, Donaldina Cameron, the courts, and the Chinese community itself tried to stem the tide of the fighting Tongs, it was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires caused by the earthquake that was the death knell for the Tongs in San Francisco, as it destroyed the brothels ...

  3. List of underground newspapers of the 1960s counterculture

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    Haight Ashbury Tribune, San Francisco (at least 16 issues) Illustrated Paper, Mendocino, 1966–1967; Leviathan, San Francisco, 1969–1970; Long Beach Free Press, Long Beach, 1969–1970; Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles, 1964–1978 (new series 2005–present) Los Angeles Staff, Los Angeles (splintered from Los Angeles Free Press)

  4. Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco (archived) (In Simplified Chinese) 1,000-foot dragon travels through Los Angeles' Chinatown, August 10, 1938, in the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles

  5. Wah Ching - Wikipedia

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    Chinatown, San Francisco Wah Ching members moved to Los Angeles and founded Wah Ching in the Los Angeles area in the mid-1960s. In the early and mid 1990s, the four original "sides" (branches) where founded by four top ranking Los Angeles Wah Ching members. Sonny-Side (SS-23) – One of the four original sides.

  6. Denis Kearney - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. SF county supervisor calls for 'mass arrests, detox, and ...

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    (The Center Square) - San Francisco County Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a Democrat and former addict, is calling for “mass arrests, detox, and treatment” of open-air, often homeless drug users in ...

  8. Forbidden City (nightclub) - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden City was a Chinese nightclub and cabaret in San Francisco, which was in business from 1938 to 1970, [1] and operated on the second floor of 363 Sutter Street, [a] between Chinatown and Union Square.

  9. Ahn Chang Ho - Wikipedia

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    In 2002, the main freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles where the 10 Freeway and 110 Freeway meet was also renamed the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange. The third pattern of ITF-style Taekwondo, which is made up of 24 movements, is called Do-San or Dosan in his honor. This is the pattern that is required to advance from 7th Kup ...