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 ...

Central Pacific workers build an astounding ten miles of track in one day, racing to meet the Union Pacific and complete the first transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific ...

For the first time, at the 150th anniversary event ... On April 28, 1869, a couple weeks before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, a legion of Chinese workers and eight Irishmen laid a ...

The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage. The World Grew Smaller One day later, the first ...

The golden spike ceremony that signaled the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad ... NYC to recognize Chinese American railroad workers appeared first on AsAmNews.

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time ... of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869 — would recognize and celebrate the ...

CITY HALL — A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING NEW YORK CITY’S first annual ... the transcontinental railroad was completed thanks to the dangerous and difficult labor of workers, many who were ...

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 ...