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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
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<p>The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) is a historical Chinese association established in various parts of the United States and Canada with large <a href="/facts/Overseas_Chinese/WIF67bsX">Overseas Chinese</a> communities. The association's clientele were Chinese immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly from eight districts on the west side of the <a href="/facts/Pearl_River_Delta/kg1HdWC4">Pearl River Delta</a> in <a href="/facts/Guangdong/wvjsjdb1">Guangdong</a>, southern China, and their descendants. The later wave of Chinese immigrants, after 1965, who came from a much wider area in China, did not experience the level of hostility faced by the pioneers and did not join the CCBA, which greatly lessened its influence. </p>