We have bled, and we have died, building and sustaining America,” said Kwan, 57, president of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association, which aims to give their forefathers their due.

Chinese-American activist Corky Lee was a self-taught photojournalist who chose a camera as his tool for social change, ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the ... through the Sierra Nevada mountains as part of the transcontinental railroad. “The importance of preserving ...

Builders of the transcontinental railroad faced geographical ... With the shaft completed, two teams of Chinese workers descended to the middle of the rock and began blasting the tunnel from ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... foreman James Harvey Strobridge to try Chinese workers as a means of expanding their labor ...

In the 1860s, it was the largest and longest-occupied camp for Chinese laborers who played an indispensable role in constructing the Transcontinental Railroad. The workers, facing perilous ...

Manu Karuka is author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) and assistant professor of American Studies at ...

Hundreds of Chinese workers blasted and built tunnels through the Sierra Nevada as part of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. Summit Camp was the largest and longest-occupied camp of ...