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🚂 #OTD The #TrancontinentalRailroad was completed in 1869. 90% of the workforce on the West Coast were #Chinese #immigrants
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⛏️ #TranscontinentalRailroad #Chinese #immigrants worked under brutal and dangerous conditions and were paid 30-50% less than whites. The railroad devastated buffalo herds and infringed on #NativeAmerican lands.
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⚒️ The #TranscontinentalRailroad was completed on May 10, 1869 in #PromontorySummit in #Utah . In the historic photograph, only white men are shown though the workforce was 90% #Chinese #immigrants Their contributions were literally erased.
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⚖️ #OTD Descendants of the #Chinese #immigrants who built the #TranscontinentalRailroad gathered together in 2014 to right a wrong. They symbolized the Chinese laborers who were not recorded in history. #CorkyLee #PhotographicJustice 📷
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🚂 #OTD A 145 years later in 2014, descendants of the #Chinese #immigrants who built the #TranscontinentalRailroad gathered in #PromontorySummit #Utah #CorkyLee #PhotographicJustice 📷 ⚖️

🪷 In the U.S., May is #AsianAmerican #NativeHawaiian and #PacificIslander Heritage Month
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