A reading selection talked about the transcontinental railroad, but it didn’t mention the Chinese workers who built it, she said. “Ultimately, our goal is that the K-12 educational system ...

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.

Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...