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DESCRIPTION:Watch a 30-minute film segment followed by a panel discussion with Plague 
 at the Golden Gate's director and producer. \n\nPlague at the Golden Gate 
 is available for viewing on PBS now. The full film is available with 
 Chinese and Spanish subtitles. You're encouraged to see the full film 
 before coming to this event. \n\nMore 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. Two doctors-vastly different in temperament, training and 
 experience-used different methods to lead the seemingly impossible battle 
 to contain the disease before it could engulf the country. In addition to 
 overwhelming medical challenges, they faced unexpected opposition from 
 business leaders, politicians and even the president of the United States. 
 Fueling the resistance would be a potent blend of political expediency, 
 ignorance, greed, racism and deep-rooted distrust of not only federal 
 authority but science itself. Scapegoated as the source of the disease 
 early on, the Chinese community fought back against unjust, discriminatory 
 treatment. The gripping story of the desperate race against time to save 
 San Francisco and the nation from the deadly disease, Plague at the Golden 
 Gate is based in part on David K. Randall's critically acclaimed book, 
 Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic 
 Plague.\n\nLi-Shin Yu is a New York-based filmmaker and director of Plague 
 at the Golden Gate for PBS's acclaimed series American Experience. Yu 
 co-directed The Chinese Exclusion Act also for American Experience. James 
 Q. Chan is an Emmy-nominated producer and director based in San Francisco. 
 Recent producing credits include Plague at the Golden Gate and Chinatown 
 Rising.\n\nFree\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/27/18852275.php
SUMMARY:Film: Plague at the Golden Gate Screening and Panel Discussion
LOCATION:San Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin St\nSan Francisco, CA 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/27/18852275.php
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