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| caption = Illustration of [[Chinatown, San Francisco|Chinatown]] residents cooking meals while quarantined, [[William Allen Rogers|W. A. Rogers]], ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', June 1902
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== Racism and discrimination lawsuit ==
Widespread racism toward [[History of Chinese Americans|Chinese immigrants]] was socially accepted during the initial time of the Chinatown plague in the early 1900s. Standard social rights and privileges were often denied to the Chinese people, as shown in the way landlords would refuse to maintain their own property when renting to Chinese immigrants.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite book|title=Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown|isbn=9781421405100|last1=Risse|first1=Guenter B.|date=March 14, 2012}}</ref> The living conditions in the Chinatown community reflected the social norms and racial inequalities during that time for Chinese immigrants. Housing for the majority of Chinatown Chinese immigrants was not fit nor adequate for human living, but with scarce housing options and landlords unwilling to provide equal and fair housing, Chinese immigrants were left little option other than to live with such housing disparities.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Discrimination against Chinese Americans culminated in two acts, the quarantine of San Francisco's Chinatown, and the permanent extension of the [[Chinese Exclusion Act]] of 1882.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views3g.htm|title=A History of Chinese Americans in California: THE 1900s|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210072505/https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views3g.htm|archive-date=February 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The extended quarantine of Chinatown was motivated more by racist images of Chinese Americans as carriers of disease than by actual evidence of the presence of [[Bubonic plague]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views3g.htm|title=A History of Chinese Americans in California:THE 1900s|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210072505/https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views3g.htm|archive-date=February 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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