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Chinese Six Companies, Stockton Street
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, better known as the Chinese Six Companies, was established in 1854 to offer aid to Chinese immigrants and fight discrimination. The Chinese Six Companies offered the newly-arrived a sense of identity in a strange new country. It also provided schools, medical care, and legal help, not just in San Francisco but nationwide as well. As a quasi-government group it served as liaison between the Chinese community and the rest of San Francisco's society, controlling importation of goods and issuing exit visas. The Chinese Six Companies was also widely credited with stopping many local tong wars. The Chinese Six Companies still operates out of this building, built in 1908.
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