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 ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

The U.S. has a long record of writing racial exclusion into policy, with consequences that last for generations.

The United States was born welcoming immigrants ... Act of 1882 fueled by labor opposition to Chinese migrants working on the transcontinental railroad. The Founding Fathers championed open ...

In 1879, California’s new constitution enabled state officials to remove immigrants ... Transcontinental Railroad. One night in 1876, a group of white vigilantes went to the homes of some ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

In reality, Chinese Americans — most of whom worked undesirable and highly dangerous jobs such as constructing the transcontinental railroad ... a senior fellow and immigration-law scholar ...

The law led many Chinese mining immigrants to head south ... for miners – what we know today as blue jeans. Transcontinental railroad: As development flourished on the West Coast ...