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

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton ... There were Native American snipers, raids, livestock rustlings, scalpings, and burnings all along the railroad right ...

After all, he asks, “What could be more American than to build a railroad?” Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad” is on view from May 10 ...

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the history of Chinese-American railroad workers in New York City. Surrounded by ...

CITY HALL — A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING NEW YORK CITY’S first annual Chinese American Railroad Workers Memorial Day will be publicized on Tuesday, April 8, by City Councilmember Susan Zhuang ...

which preserves a stretch of the railroad and the spot where the last spike was installed. Lee — the self-described “undisputed unofficial Asian American photographer laureate” — has taken pictures of ...

"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 ...