This online exhibition was originally created by Irene Madrigal for the CAAAV Digital Archive, as coursework for the course “Community Archives,” taught by Maggie Schreiner, in the Archives and Public History MA program at New York University.

Founded in 1986 as the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, CAAAV originally organized against rising police and white supremacist violence against Asian communities. Over time, their work broadened to fighting systemic racism and violence in Asian immigrant communities—through organizing with cab drivers and homecare workers, organizing in coalition to oppose the U.S. wars in the Middle East and the crackdown against immigrant communities after 9/11, and more. This exhibit explores the first decade-plus of their work focused on organizing against violence and police brutality targeting New York's Asian communities, using documents and archival images from CAAAV's Digital Archive to examine some of CAAAV's key community organizing efforts.