AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 6:00PM

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. It was the first time in history that civilization’s most feared disease — the infamous Black Death — made it to North America.

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