Scope and Contents

This collection includes documents, periodicals, publications, photographs, and artifacts that were collected by Lily Lum Chan related to her community advocacy and organizational work, anti-Communist China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) political activism, her family such as her father Walter U Lum and her husband Stanley Chan, and her personal records and items.

Content Description Contains Munson Kwok's Chinatown Redevelopment Project meeting agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence, meeting notes, subcommittee reports, and project documents. The majority of records are meeting materials for the Chinatown Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) and its subcommittees, Chinese Cultural and Community Center of Greater Los Angeles (CCACC), as well as for the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Majority of documents are English-language documents with some Traditional...

Content Description Collection includes materials relating to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Chinese Americans, Los Angeles Chinatown, local organizations, and Asian Americans from the 20th century, primarily in the 1970s-1990s, collected by founder and long-time leader of CHSSC Reverend Paul Louie. This includes organizational and event materials, artifacts, newspaper articles, dissertations, and theses on Chinese Americans written between 1940-80s. This collection also contains...