On this day
After a plague death, San Francisco officials cordoned off about 12 blocks of Chinatown overnight, enforcing the quarantine only against Chinese residents while letting white residents pass-an early case of race-based public-health policy. (Shares Mar 7 with the Kahoʻolawe activists lost at sea.)
On March 7, 1946, the U.S. Navy relocated all 167 residents of Bikini Atoll to Rongerik, 125 miles away, to clear the atoll for nuclear testing. Told the move was temporary, the Bikini people were never able to return home; their descendants remain in exile.
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Native Hawaiian activist-musician George Helm and Kimo Mitchell were lost at sea returning from Kahoʻolawe, where the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana was resisting US Navy bombing of the sacred island; their deaths galvanized the Hawaiian movement.