(Source: NBC News, June 21, 2017)
NEW YORK — It happened somewhere between mile 92 and 119. The Chinese railroad workers were grading and digging tunnels across a stretch of the Sierras when they decided to lay down their tools. It was the end of June 1867 and snow still covered the mountain tops. The men, many of them from Canton in southern China, had demands: They wanted pay equal to whites, shorter workdays, and better conditions for building the country’s first transcontinental railroad. So they put them to their employer, the Central Pacific Railroad, and a strike was on.
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