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.

The exhibition highlights Chinese immigrants’ many contributions ... A book, “The Chinese and the Iron Road — Building the Transcontinental Railroad,” written by Gordon H.

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 ...

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 build ...