Jotham T. Coleman, whom researchers have little information about, was hired as a conductor by the Independent Subway System ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

These drillers were some of the few African American workers on the construction site. In 1933, there were only 24 African Americans in a work force of 4,000 men. Bureau of Reclamation.

A small group of black railroad workers at the Pitts Camp near Marlinton, West Virginia. These young men were employed by the ...

The ambitious, multi-year "American Railroad" project tells the story of the transcontinental grid's construction through the lens of workers including African American, Chinese, Japanese ...