The Story of Chinese in America is an All-American Story

Sources & Recommended Reading

Fremont’s Grocery & the Tang Family

https://www.hcn.org/issues/54-4/history-how-a-california-archive-reconnected-a-new-mexico-family-with-it-chinese-roots/

https://www.hcn.org/issues/53-4/south-race-racism-albuquerques-racist-history-haunts-housing-market/

Gold Rush & How the Chinese helped establish California

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/chinese-immigration-california#bibliography  (Most of the slide stats. “In 1852, the California legislature responded [to anti-Chinese sentiment] by passing the state’s first discriminatory tax law, the Foreign Miners’ Tax.”)

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/chinese-immigrants

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/chinese-workers-and-transcontinental-railroad

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240513-the-untold-story-of-the-chinese-americans-who-helped-create-yosemite

How Chinese laborers built the Transcontinental Railroad

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/chinese-workers-and-transcontinental-railroad

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37488984/ (“As many as 20,000 may have worked on the railway. The death toll was staggering, estimated in the thousands.”)

https://www.truckeehistory.org/chinese—heroes-of-the-railroad.html

https://www.nps.gov/gosp/learn/historyculture/chinese-labor-and-the-iron-road.htm

The Chinese Diaspora in New Mexico

https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/chinese-diaspora.html

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 & Anti-Chinese Documentation

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act

https://www.mychinaroots.com/places/651533/united-states

https://www.calmigration.org/learn-chapter/chinese-exclusion (“[T]he 1882 Exclusion Act was the first—and only—federal law to bar an entire ethnic group from entering the US.”)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-Exclusion-Act

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/06/20/old-yellow-peril-anti-chinese-posters/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-race-riots-and-massacres-in-the-United-States

The history of Chinese in America is American History

Voting history https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/report/50-years-voting-rights-act-asian-american-perspective

Shared Lines https://savingplaces.org/stories/drawing-the-asian-pacific-islander-american-experience-on-route-66-with-sammy-yuen
—> Buy a print! https://sammyyuen.com/collections/shared-lines

All About Albuquerque’s Route 66 Origins

https://www.yahoo.com/news/becoming-part-mother-road-one-040300823.html

https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/route-66-centennial/explore/neighborhood-guide/downtown/

https://www.cabq.gov/railyards/rail-yards-history

China Then and Now project by UNM’s Maxwell Museum- https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/index.html

Business Listing https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/directory.html

Wing & Wong Lin Ong Family https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/story-04.html

Alice (Ong) & Jimmy Jeung Family https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/story-05.html

Asian Business Collaborative https://asianpibc.org

Economic Report https://asianpibc.org/aanhpi-economic-impact-report-new-mexico/

Economic Report https://asianpibc.org/aanhpi-economic-impact-report-new-mexico/

Chinese American Citizens Alliance: https://www.cacanational.org/about

Chinese Merchants along Route 66 Image Credit
https://savingplaces.org/stories/drawing-the-asian-pacific-islander-american-experience-on-route-66-with-sammy-yuen

Reference material for Chinese Merchants of Albuquerque’s Route 66 Centennial Celebration Speaker Series.

Downtown Albuquerque Central Avenue/Route 66. Photo ca1960. Photo postcard from Jim Coad Collection, Albuquerque Museum