Ruin, Rubble, and Race: Lessons on the Centennial of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Bob Wing
It's as if the spotlight that Hurricane Katrina cast on the inequities of disaster relief never happened.
San Francisco's high and mighty are in full-throated self-celebration of the City's "rising from the ashes" of the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire.
Forgotten are people like my great-great grandfather Lee Bo-wen who immigrated to San Francisco Chinatown in 1854 and reared two generations at 820 Dupont Street. His family was forcibly evacuated, never to return.
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