A 1900 epidemic foreshadowed modern issues.
San Francisco’s Chinatown residents suffered more from racial prejudice, xenophobia and the adverse actions of corrupt politicians during the bubonic plague crisis of 1900-04 than they and their fellow non-Chinese American citizens did from the disease. Chinatown image Courtesy William Hester Photographs Collection, University of Washington/Newsclippings courtesy Newspapers.com[/cap
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