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Demonstration at 1 Police Plaza to Chinatown 5th Precinct after arrests during the Manhattan Bridge Takeover protesting Mayor Giuliani’s oppressive police policies. Photo depicts protestors holding memorial signs. A protestor holds a sign reading "GO…

Demonstration at 1 Police Plaza to Chinatown 5th Precinct after arrests during the Manhattan Bridge Takeover protesting Mayor Giuliani’s oppressive police policies. Photo depicts protestors holding memorial signs. One reads "Manuel Mayi murdered by …

CAAAV members standing in front of a sign that reads "Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence," protesting the film Rising Sun at its opening in Times Square.

CAAAV, along with dozens of other Asian American organizations across the country,…

Protesters gather at the 17th precinct police station in Manhattan East Side to protest the police beating of 20-year-old Korean student Yong Kook Ou. Weeks earlier Ou was pulled from his bike and arrested for riding against traffic and severely…

Signs in photo read, "Justice for Yong Xin Huang" and "Remember Yong Xin Huang; March 24, 1995: Died at the Hands of NYPD."

On March 24, 1995, Yong Xin Huang was shot and killed by police officer Steven Mizrahi. This incited protests among Asian…

As Governor Pataki headed to an Asian-American Heritage Month celebration in midtown, 80 protesters gathered nearby to voice their concerns. Organized by the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV), the protest highlighted the detrimental…

CAAAV members hold posters with images of Yong Xin Huang and banner of CAAAV.

On March 24, 1995, Yong Xin Huang was shot and killed by police officer Steven Mizrahi. This incited protests among Asian communities against police brutality and…

Protest signs display the name and logo of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV).

Demonstrators holding signs in English outside the Montefiore Family Health Clinic in the Bronx. The signs read, "Stop Discrimination" and "Translation Provides Language Skills, Assistance, Services, Good Health."

CAAAV's Youth Leadership Project…

Members of CAAAV and Black New Yorkers march in protest past the now-demolished Sun Sing Theatre, under the Manhattan Bridge in Manhattan's Chinatown. Protestors hold signs calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality. Banner picutured…