What’s missing from this picture, taken on the occasion of the completion of the Transcontinen
What’s missing from this picture, taken on the occasion of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?Chinese American workers.This year, for the National Parks Service’s annual re-staging of the photo, Corky Lee is trying to convene 145 Asian Americans to re-insert the memory of the thousands of workers who labored, and often gave their lives, to complete the railroad. If you can make it out to Salt Lake City May 10, you can join in. - CM -- source link
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