Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

The Central Pacific directors contemplated ... concerns were siphoning the workers from their route. "We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get ...

The Chinese railroad workers’ story also has a page in Palo Alto’s history: Leland Stanford was one of the “Big Four” who owned the Central Pacific Railroad, for whom the Chinese laborers ...

1854 People v. 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 ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers ... construction of the first continental railroad in the United States, the Central Pacific Railroad and the pivotal role this network ...