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The Presidents: FDR

Season 7 Episode 1 | 4h 2m

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope after the Great Depression and led the nation during World War II.

Aired: 05/11/08 | Expired: 02/27/18 | Rating: NR

Original funding for FDR provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liberty Mutual, The Scotts Company, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS stations and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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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