A memorial to the Chinese immigrants who worked to build the transcontinental railroad is set to be placed on the southeast lawn of the Utah State Capitol. State Sen. Karen Kwan, the first Chinese ...

In January 1882, 11 Chinese railroad workers in a town outside El Paso were murdered by white colleagues who disguised themselves as Native Americans. According to Shelley Fisher Fishkin, ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the first railroad across the United States. But some ...

Members of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association and other leaders pose with shovels as they hold a groundbreaking for Utah’s first monument honoring Chinese railroad workers, at ...

The resolution for the Chinese American Railroad Workers Memorial Day will be heard on Thursday, April 10. AsAmNews is published by the non-profit, Asian American Media Inc. We’re now on BlueSky .

The "Chinese Workers' Experience" exhibit stands on the first floor of the California State Railroad Museum. For Smith, the lessons of this exhibit transcend time.

Surrounded by descendants of Chinese railroad workers, supporters, and fellow lawmakers on the steps of City Hall, Zhuang explained that if the City Council passes the resolution, May 10 would be ...

The Chinese worker's exhibit was dedicated to the late civic leader Dr. Herbert Yee, who helped the railroad museum first open its doors in 1976.

A Chinese railroad worker outside a tunnel, 1860s. In the American West, railroad companies often employed Chinese laborers to build their infrastructure. (Alfred A. Hart/Library of Congress) ...

An exhibit commemorating one of the most significant developments in the settlement of the West and Chinese Americans’ contributions to it is on display this week on the porch of longtime Palo ...

Terrace was established by Chinese railroad workers in 1869, when construction crews were racing to connect the eastward and westward tracks of the railroad 70 miles from here at Promontory Summit.

When the railroad was completed in 1876 most of the Chinese moved on to other railroad construction projects, A few Chinese workers remained as track workers maintaining the NCNGRR. Apart from ...