By Shirley L NgThe Takeaways Recognition of Chinese Immigrants’ Contributions: Brooklyn Councilmember Susan Zhang ...

Surrounded by descendants of Chinese railroad workers, supporters, and fellow lawmakers on the steps of City Hall, Council ...

After all, he asks, “What could be more American than to build a railroad?” Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad” is on view from May 10 ...

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton ... There were Native American snipers, raids, livestock rustlings, scalpings, and burnings all along the railroad right ...

CITY HALL STEPS — HUNDREDS OF ASIAN NEW YORKERS JOINED CITY COUNCILMEMBER SUSAN ZHUANG on Tuesday, April 8, in presenting the Council with a resolution for Chinese American Railroad Workers ...

which preserves a stretch of the railroad and the spot where the last spike was installed. Lee — the self-described “undisputed unofficial Asian American photographer laureate” — has taken pictures of ...

"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 ...