Clip: Season 23 Episode 11 | 2m 54s
Student Freedom Rider Erica Shekell's Day 5 video of a reconciliation between Freedom Rider Hank Thomas and the son of a clansmen who was on the scene of the 1961 Anniston firebombing.
Aired: 05/24/11
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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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