March 7, 1900

injustice

San Francisco Chinatown Plague Quarantine

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.)

Sources

  1. www.niaid.nih.gov www.niaid.nih.gov/about/joseph-kinyoun-indispensable-man-plague-san-francisco
  2. sciencehistory.org sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/san-franciscos-plague-years

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