The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

Yet like these other non-white peoples, Chinese immigrants were prevented ... In addition to working on the transcontinental railroad that eventually linked the frontier west to markets back ...

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 build ...

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 ...

Asian immigrants had provided much of the building labor on the first transcontinental railroad, but the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 restricted immigration from China. US railroad companies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese immigration began on the West Coast ... Irish workers on the Transcontinental Railroad were paid more and received free boarding. Many employers specifically used Chinese laborers to ...