Daily life for Chinese-American immigrants in the 1800s was made difficult by dangerous, low-paying jobs and discrimination from white Americans. Chinese-American immigrants first came to the States ...

In January 1882, 11 Chinese railroad workers in a town outside El Paso were ... to Chinese laborers who were traveling abroad in the 1800s. Advertising Tam attended The Cooper Union and studied ...

Chinese workers were excluded from the official cemetery. The flags indicate where human remains were found. Snowsheds shielded railroad tracks from storms and avalanches in the Sierra Nevada ...

May also marks the publication of Ghosts of Gold Mountain, a groundbreaking history of Chinese railroad workers by Stanford scholar Gordon H. Chang. Given that the university’s founder ...

Luo is involved with the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association. The Chinese immigrants were essential to the completion of the work through the mountains of the West. The group is ...

SACRAMENTO -- The California State Railroad Museum's "Chinese Workers' Experience" exhibit tells the stories of Chinese railroad workers who played a fundamental role in the building of the ...

Layers of granite and sandstone will represent the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the bulk of the Chinese workers laid tracks on the western side of the railroad. It will be anchored with a ...

director of the California State Railroad Museum; and Dr. David Yee, a member of the California Commission on Asian & Pacific Islander American Affairs. Yee also presented a California State ...

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the history of Chinese-American railroad workers in New York City. Surrounded by ...

In January 1882, 11 Chinese railroad workers in a town outside El Paso were ... to Chinese laborers who were traveling abroad in the 1800s. Raised in Little Neck, a suburb of Queens, N.Y., Tam ...