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 Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over ... a groundbreaking history of Chinese railroad workers by Stanford scholar Gordon H.

among them 300 Chinese railroad workers who fell to their deaths during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada at “Cape Horn,” a treacherous area along the American ...

Western Pacific built the line from Oakland to Sacramento ... She co-edited “Voices From the Railroad,” a collection of stories by nine descendants of Chinese railroad workers, recently published by ...

The railroad remains a potent symbol ... Contractor Charles Crocker convinces Central Pacific foreman James Harvey Strobridge to try Chinese workers as a means of expanding their labor force ...

1854 People v. 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 ...

It also explores the role of women and Chinese workers in building ... museum-operated Sacramento Southern Railroad train, which departs from the Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot in Old ...

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 ...

A group of Chinese workers seen in another photo taken in the Western Montana Rockies, during construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which 1,500 Chinese helped to complete. GETTY IMAGES ...