America: Promised Land: Rebuilding San Francisco’s Chinatown | History

Amer­i­ca: Promised Land: Rebuild­ing San Francisco’s Chi­na­town | History



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After the 1906 earth­quake destroyed the city, plans to rebuild didn’t include a place for Chi­nese immi­grants. Faced with the prospect of reset­tling to Oak­land, Look Tin Eli employed white archi­tects to cre­ate an even grander Chi­na­town. #Amer­i­caPromis­ed­Land

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