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.

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 ...

In 1867, thousands of Chinese workers, who were grading and digging tunnels for the transcontinental railroad, simultaneously threw down their picks and shovels to protest their lower pay compared ...

The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America ... Just six months after the meeting at Promontory Summit, workers half the world away consummated their ...

The Laurel Tie Railroad Worker float won first place at the ... as home for the Laurel Tie memorial has nothing to do with the Transcontinental Railroad. The museum is dedicated to a much smaller ...

Chinese-American activist Corky Lee was a self-taught photojournalist who chose a camera as his tool for social change, ...

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

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 ...