Since 1932 ACA Galleries has promoted Social Realism. The gallery gave a platform for artists to express their views no matter how controversial. In 1935 ACA organized the earliest meetings of the American Artists Congress. Work by women, African-American, Chinese, Latin-American and Jewish artists were shown regularly. ACA's promotion of political artists had severe consequences. In 1949 Congressman George A. Dondero of Michigan attacked ACA calling it "...the hub, the gathering point of Marxists in art, whose subtle, nefarious un-American schemes receive their prime incitement..." Soon after ACA and many of its artists were blacklisted. Despite the political pressure applied during the 50s ACA has stayed true to its roots by providing a venue for voices of dissonance.