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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 ...
The Los Angeles Police Department issued a dispersal order, but it took several hours to clear the streets. In downtown, multiple businesses were burglarized or vandalized, though exact details ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least 55 people were hurt, two seriously, when a Metro light rail train and a University of Southern California shuttle bus collided Tuesday along a busy thoroughfare in ...
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a "Call 911" sign flashing on a Line 81 bus around 12:45 a.m. in South Los Angeles, KTLA5 reported, citing a spokesperson, adding the ...
1912 − The cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Oakland establish lodges. 1915 − A new national charter is adopted to form the Chinese American Citizens Alliance under a Grand Lodge based in San Francisco. [4] 1921 – Built a National Headquarters in San Francisco. 1924 – Alliance publishes Chinese Times as its official newspaper ...
Students at the campuses of San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley joined together in 1968 and 1969 and created the name Third World Liberation Front in relation to the Third World Liberation struggles. The students understood the similarities between the two and "recognizing their task as one of decolonization in a US context."
A female Los Angeles city bus driver was attacked by a woman trying to ride DASH on Sunday — just two days after hundreds of Metro bus drivers staged a sick-out protesting safety concerns.. In a ...
They were largely concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City but extended as far as Honolulu. The movement created community service programs, art, poetry , music, and other creative works; offered a new sense of self-determination and Asian American unity; and raised the political and racial consciousness of ...