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American Experience: Plague at the Golden Gate on May 24

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This film explores how more than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor.  

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American Experience
Plague at the Golden Gate
1:52:39
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Expires: 2022-06-22

Discover how bubonic plague in 1900 set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco

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