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Protestors hold a red sign that reads the "Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence" poster. In the lefthand corner, a poster in the shape of a tombstone with the name Jim Ming Hai Loo.

A group of youths pose for a photograph in front of a Confucius Statue located in Chinatown

17 people assembled in matching green shirts. Some are holding orchids

Protestors holding signs create a circle outside of 401 East 84th Street in New York City.

A girl wearing an orange vest with the word JUSTICE embroidered on it. Below is a patch "NO WAR NO RACISM" and an imprint of Phan Thị Kim Phúc ("Napalm Girl") after being severely burned in a Napalm attack during the Vietnam War in 1972. The young…

A young man holds a microphone and reads from a paper at a CAAAV event. Streamers and balloons hang from the ceiling above him.

Picture of an apartment building at 123 Baxter Street in Chinatown (Manhattan). A sign on the building reads "DOWNTOWN DEFINED [...] www.123baxterstreet.com."

This photographs shows a crowded scene in front of a movie theater. On its marquee, adorned in red block letters, is a title: RISING SUN. On the street, members of CAAAV hold signs as tourists pass by, reading “Japanese men sleeping with white women!…

A multiracial coalition of protestors marches down a street, demonstrating solidarity with Asian communities.

July 30, 1993: CAAAV summer interns Jonathon Sung Bidol, Ginny Moon, and Julia Wang gather over one-hundred demonstrators outside Times Square’s Criterion Theater to protest Philip Kaufman’s racist film, Rising Sun, on its opening day. “Rising Sun!…