Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the ... As their presence increased, the Chinese immigrants faced growing prejudice and an increasingly restrictive laws limiting ...

Engineers shake hands and pop champagne, surrounded by a cheering crowd of railroad workers. But the photo tells an incomplete story: None of the 20,000 or so Chinese immigrants who had risked their ...

"We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get them," Crocker wrote. His brother Charles, the project's contractor, raised the workers' monthly wages four ...

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 ...

The ambitious, multi-year "American Railroad" project tells the story of the transcontinental grid's construction through the lens of workers including African American, Chinese, Japanese ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where ...