Remember Leland Stanford, who called Asian-Americans the "dregs" of "an inferior race" in his inaugural speech as California governor before it turned out that he would be absolutely dependent on their labor to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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No Chinese Americans here in the final photo, even though they were paid 30 to 50 percent less than their white colleagues and were given the hardest work. Chinese civic organizations retrieved 1,200 bodies along the route. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chang-transcontinental-railroad-anniversary-chinese-workers-20190510-story.html …pic.twitter.com/pOq3F7P1Fh
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Southern Pacific is the company that litigated parts of the Supreme Court precedent that corporations can be considered people under the 14th amendment, a Constitutional amendment created to elevate the rights of former African-American slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Co.#Significance …
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The greatest achievement of the intercontinental railroad system was AMC giving all of us 5 years of Hell On Wheels.
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