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

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the ...

Surrounded by descendants of Chinese railroad workers, supporters, and fellow lawmakers on the steps of City Hall, Council ...

The American Legion’s Wong said, “I’m a descendant of a Transcontinental Railroad worker. My great-grandfather came to America in 1860. He was recruited as a Chinese laborer.” ...

“May 10th, 1869: the transcontinental railroad was completed thanks to the dangerous and difficult labor of workers, many who were Chinese Americans,” said Zhuang. “The conversation around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Executive e.B. Crocker complained in a letter to his ... were siphoning the workers from their route. "We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get ...

In 1867, Chinese transcontinental railroad workers went on strike to protest unsafe working conditions and lower pay than their white peers. Then came the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act–the first ...

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