The golden spike : the Chinese contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad / producer/director/editor, Amy Y. Chan ; producer/co-director, Jim Choi ; a production of the Center for Asian American Media.

San Francisco, CA : Center for Asian American Media, 2009.

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Folk musician Charlie Chin narrates this accessible introduction to an important part of Asian American history. Although over 10,000 Chinese immigrants helped build the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad, their crucial contribution was largely overlooked for almost an entire century. The Golden Spike is the story of these forgotten workers with photographs, paintings and political cartoons from the period.

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August 30, 2021

Narrator, Charlie Chin.

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