The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic ...

The exhibition highlights Chinese immigrants’ many contributions ... A reading selection talked about the transcontinental railroad, but it didn’t mention the Chinese workers who built it ...

Yet like these other non-white peoples, Chinese immigrants were prevented ... In addition to working on the transcontinental railroad that eventually linked the frontier west to markets back ...

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 hires Chinese workers to build ...

But Chinese Americans had reason to be hopeful in the wake of the transcontinental railroad's completion. Since they began arriving in America a couple decades before, they had been the target of ...

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

Chinese immigration began on the West Coast ... Irish workers on the Transcontinental Railroad were paid more and received free boarding. Many employers specifically used Chinese laborers to ...