The Chinese Railroad Workers History Center, near the southern entrance of ... "What is important to remember is the sweat and the tears and sometimes the lives of the Chinese immigrants who built the ...

Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the ...

Transportation across North America with reached a new level in 1862.It was the year when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law.Tha ...

We follow entrepreneurs like the “Chinese courtesan” Ah Toy, an immigrant to San Francisco who sold sex ... Her ancestors include a railroad worker from the 1860s, a woman who was separated from her ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored ... also honoring both the 19th century railway workers and many of their descendants — Asian ...

They were barred from obtaining citizenship, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited further immigration, which prevented many railroad workers from reconnecting with their families.

There was an interregnum, during which the fury over Chinese immigration seemed to be ... When they encountered a group of Chinese workers along the railroad tracks, they fired wildly at them.

As many as 20,000 Chinese immigrants were recruited for the massive railroad project. They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed ...

In the early 20th century, deadly conditions on the job killed thousands of US workers ... immigrant labor populations." For example, in the 1860s, the Central Pacific Railway hired thousands of ...

A similar oversimplification occurs when NPR attributes the blame for exclusion almost entirely to “white workers.” Working people participated in violence against Chinese immigrants ...