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Title: Asian Community Center food program
Creator: Louie, Steve
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970s
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library
Collection: Wei Min She (為民社) and Asian Community Center photographs, 1970-1980
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: The Asian Community Center distributed food to low-income families in Chinatown, San Francisco. As part of the war on poverty programs, the government made food surplus available for those who qualified as low-income.
Type: image
Identifier: ACC_2 Food Program - 01
Subject: Asian American families
Community centers
Asian American political activists
Food relief
Asian Community Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
Wei Min Shè (為民社)
Place: San Francisco, Calif.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Provenance: Gift of Steve Louie; 2015

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