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 ...

A black-and-white photograph shows Chinese immigrants perform a dragon ... where many usually found work as railroad builders and laundry workers. Chinese New Year became one of the rare occasions ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Page Act prefigured the near-total ban on Chinese immigration to the U.S. seven years later, with the Exclusion Act of 1882—the country’s first federal law to restrict a group on the basis ...

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 ...

Experts in workplace safety warn that increased fear among immigrants at risk of deportation could inhibit them from speaking up about health and safety threats on the job. All workers have the ...