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No “Thanks” for the Chinese

by | Apr 28, 2016 | Uncategorized

Celebration at the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad in May 1969
It was a race to build a transcontinental railroad—one crew coming from the east, the other from the west, eventually to meet up in Utah. James Strobridge was head of construction for the west-to-east competitor, the Central Pacific Railroad, and he refused to hire Chinese laborers. He was highly prejudicial, seeing them as strange heathen


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