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 ...

In the early 20th century, newspapers reported that it was more dangerous to be a US worker than it was to ... Pacific Railway hired thousands of Chinese immigrants for some of the deadliest ...

As the eldest of four sons born to Chinese immigrant parents ... of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad that excluded Chinese workers. In 2014 he finally corrected that injustice ...

Joel Edgerton plays an everyman US logger and railroad worker in the early ... when Robert learns what can happen to the Chinese immigrants who work alongside him building America’s railroads ...

Workers install a neon ... a cultural hub home to hundreds of Chinese immigrants and their descendants, many of whom who were building roads, working on railroad projects and running downtown ...

But the larger point, beyond just dust to dust, is made by Claire (the brilliant Kerry Condon), a well-traveled forestry services worker Robert ... as a child when Chinese immigrants were ...

Robert goes from day laborer to Spokane railroad logger ... Americans amid the turn-of-the-century immigration wave. An incident involving a Chinese worker, in which Robert is implicated, will ...

Despite this, the sentiment against Chinese immigrants grew increasingly hostile ... In 1905, Chinese railroad workers were once again chased out of Redding. The history of Chinatown is seemingly ...

In 1879, California’s new constitution enabled state officials to remove immigrants that ... to complete the Transcontinental Railroad. One night in 1876, a group of white vigilantes went to the homes ...

Hua Yao Ke, a Chinese national and owner of Kamiya 86, pled guilty to establishing a commercial enterprise to evade immigration laws. Ke hired undocumented workers, paid them in cash, and did not ...