Chinese laborers at work with pick and shovel wheelbarrows and one horse dump carts filling in under the long secret town trestle which was originally built in 1865 on the Present Souther Pacific ...

By Shirley L NgThe Takeaways Recognition of Chinese Immigrants’ Contributions: Brooklyn Councilmember Susan Zhang ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the ... As their presence increased, the Chinese immigrants faced growing prejudice and an increasingly restrictive laws limiting ...

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the ...

Surrounded by descendants of Chinese railroad workers, supporters, and fellow lawmakers on the steps of City Hall, Council ...

Engineers shake hands and pop champagne, surrounded by a cheering crowd of railroad workers. But the photo tells an incomplete story: None of the 20,000 or so Chinese immigrants who had risked their ...

"We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get them," Crocker wrote. His brother Charles, the project's contractor, raised the workers' monthly wages four ...

the transcontinental railroad was completed thanks to the dangerous and difficult labor of workers, many who were Chinese Americans,” said Zhuang. “The conversation around immigration in ...

Hall, CA Supreme Court rules that a white man charged with a murder cannot be convicted on the testimony of a Chinese witness 1865 Central Pacific Railroad ... allows immigration on basis of family ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where ...