Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

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

Chinese laborers at work with pick and shovel wheelbarrows and one horse dump carts filling in under the long secret town trestle which was originally built in 1865 on the Present Souther Pacific ...

among them 300 Chinese railroad workers who fell to their deaths during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada at “Cape Horn,” a treacherous area along the American ...

Central Pacific turned to Chinese immigrants ... She co-edited “Voices From the Railroad,” a collection of stories by nine descendants of Chinese railroad workers, recently published by the Chinese ...

The Central Pacific directors contemplated ... concerns were siphoning the workers from their route. "We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get ...

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 ...