Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
The US Congress passes H. Res. 683, authored by Congresswoman Judy Chu, expressing regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act. Full coverage of the House proceedings on H. Res. 683 can be found at http://1882foundation.orgwww.c-spanvideo.org/clip/3342436
Interviews of descendants: part of the ongoing Stanford University project to find oral stories, documents, artifacts, etc from descendants of Chinese railroad workers.
To honor the Chinese contributions to the Transcontinental Railroad, Union Pacific ran a special scenic excursion train. Gene Chan spoke about his great grandfather Jow Kee at the event.
This is the story of my Chinese great grandfather and grandmother and the 7 children they raised on a ranch in the late 1800’s in Dogpatch, the Potrero, San Francisco. How and why did they raise their family on a ranch in outlying San Francisco instead of in Chinatown? This was a time of intense anti-Chinese sentiment? Some of the answers spin out in the lives of their children. And these answers suggest an unexpected interface between early Chinese entrepreneurs and San Francisco’s early business elite tied to the Pacific Ocean trade and to the railroads.