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Preview: Season 23 Episode 11 | 30s
The story of the 1961 Freedom Rides through America's Deep South for Civil Rights.
Aired: 02/06/12
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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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