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Penny Fujiko Willgerodt (left), coordinator of CAAAV Newsletter Committee, holding banner that says "Stop Racial Violence." Kazu Iijima (right), Japanese-American activist and co-founder of Asian Americans for Action in New York City, which drew from…

Don Kao (second from the left), director of Project Reach (a youth and adult-run, multiracial, multi-gender, substance abuse prevention, and anti-discrimination training center), pictured with other Asian American protesters.

On January 21, 1988,…

Don Kao (right), director of Project Reach (a youth and adult-run, multiracial, multi-gender, substance abuse prevention, and anti-discrimination training center), pictured with Kazu Iijima (second left), Japanese-American activist and co-founder of…

Marla Kamiya, education coordinator of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights and member of Asian American Union for Political Action and CAAAV, pictured on the right.

On January 21, 1988, protesters marched down Fifth Ave, Manhattan to demonstrate…

A woman speaks into a microphone while three demonstrators stand behind her. A banner behind the demonstrators reads, "[ASIAN] AMERICAN [LEGAL] DEFENSE."

Crowd congregated to protest police brutality. Several people hold signs calling for a stop to police brutality.

A group of young people in front of a storefront with signs in the windows that read, "Asian / Americans / UNITED" and "AAU"

A group of female youth volunteers standing in front of a building with a sign that reads "Asian Americans United."

More than a hundred demonstrators from thirty organizations protested outside the Schomburg Center of Harlem against this year’s proposed rent increase—which would be determined by the Rent Guidelines Board—and demanded a rent freeze. CAAAV…

A young Black woman checks the blood pressure of an older Asian woman, who turns to smile at the camera. They sit at a table with a few other women of color, and in the back of the room is a sign for CAAAV’s Women Workers Project.