Day 10: Jason McGaughey
Clip: Season 23 Episode 11 | 2m 43s
2011 Student Freedom Rider Jason McGaughey says, "Together we can accomplish great things and tear down the walls of oppression. Together we can do it."
Aired: 05/24/11
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The Chinese Six Companies
On May 28, 1900, San Francisco policemen formed a perimeter around Chinatown as officials diagnosed bubonic plague in the neighborhood and wanted to quarantine the nearly 20,000 residents. As tensions flared, an influential group of merchants known as the Chinese Six Companies sprang into action.
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