The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of ... domestic service and later railroad building. Yee Ah Tye became a partner in a store called Hop Sing in La Porte.

began arriving on the West Coast where they replaced the Chinese as cheap labor in building railroads, farming, and fishing. Growing anti-Japanese legislation and violence soon followed. In 1907, ...

Narrator The second part of the ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS series unfolds with the arrival of Chinese on the West ... such as photographs of the building of the railroad and standard textbooks ...