In this video, we uncover the true cost of building America’s first coast-to-coast railroad and the sacrifices made to connect the country.

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... James Harvey Strobridge to try Chinese workers as a means of expanding their labor force ...

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.

More than 1,500 laborers, at least 1,000 of whom were Chinese, under the direction of former Central Pacific Railroad worker ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... James Harvey Strobridge to try Chinese workers as a means of expanding their labor force ...