AANHPI History Calendar

· San Francisco, California

San Francisco Chinatown Plague Quarantine

injustice

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.)

Communities
  • Chinese American
Topics
  • health

Sources

Also on March 7

resistance

Kahoʻolawe: George Helm and Kimo Mitchell Lost

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.