Chinese Coloradanas
The Page Act of 1875 was the first restrictive federal immigration law to prohibit foreign "undesirables" from entering the country. This anti-Chinese law resulted in an unbalanced demographic favoring males who were imported to help build the railroads that crossed the country. As a result of the Page Act and similar anti-Chinese laws Chinese people were discriminated against across the country, particularly in the west.
Chinese were persecuted all across Colorado and it culminated in the anti-Chinese in the Denver Riot of 1880. Denverites rampaged through the Chinese community. A black spot on Denver's history..
Chin Lin Sou worked for the Central Pacific Rail Road. He was a labor contractor supervising Chinese workers who were indispensable in completing the western part of the transcontinental railroad. He migrated to Colorado and supervised Chinese workers in the gold fields of Black Hawk, a town just west of Denver. Chin Lin Sou was one of the few miners to find pay dirt. Most of the Chinese in Black Hawk lived in ethnically separated Harlem of the West. Because of success in America Chin was able to bring his wife back from China, whom he hadn't seen for a decade.
Chin lived in Denver and opened a trading company where he became a community leader and was considered "the Mayor of Chinatown." As part of the Colorado Bicentennial celebration Chin Lin Sou was honored with a glass likeness in the old Supreme Courtroom in the State Capitol.
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The Page Act of 1875 was the first restrictive federal immigration law to prohibit foreign "undesirables" from entering the country. This anti-Chinese law resulted in an unbalanced demographic favoring males who were imported to help build the railroads that crossed the country. As a result of the Page Act and similar anti-Chinese laws Chinese people were discriminated against across the country, particularly in the west.
Chinese were persecuted all across Colorado and it culminated in the anti-Chinese in the Denver Riot of 1880. Denverites rampaged through the Chinese community. A black spot on Denver's history..
Chin Lin Sou worked for the Central Pacific Rail Road. He was a labor contractor supervising Chinese workers who were indispensable in completing the western part of the transcontinental railroad. He migrated to Colorado and supervised Chinese workers in the gold fields of Black Hawk, a town just west of Denver. Chin Lin Sou was one of the few miners to find pay dirt. Most of the Chinese in Black Hawk lived in ethnically separated Harlem of the West. Because of success in America Chin was able to bring his wife back from China, whom he hadn't seen for a decade.
Chin lived in Denver and opened a trading company where he became a community leader and was considered "the Mayor of Chinatown." As part of the Colorado Bicentennial celebration Chin Lin Sou was honored with a glass likeness in the old Supreme Courtroom in the State Capitol.
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Chin Lin Sou's window in the Supreme Courtroom of the Colorado Capitol
Football
Oregon 42 vs University of Colorado 6
Maybe the fan's expectations for the Buffs will be more realistic in the future.
Historic Lecture Series
Tesoro Cultural Center
Coming October 23 - April 24 a series of lectures by scholars in the field of Western History.
"The Night the Stars Fell" and "Kit Carson Mountain Man" for example. A list of all nine lectures in next weeks blog. For more information in the meantime 303.839.1671
Football
Oregon 42 vs University of Colorado 6
Maybe the fan's expectations for the Buffs will be more realistic in the future.
Historic Lecture Series
Tesoro Cultural Center
Coming October 23 - April 24 a series of lectures by scholars in the field of Western History.
"The Night the Stars Fell" and "Kit Carson Mountain Man" for example. A list of all nine lectures in next weeks blog. For more information in the meantime 303.839.1671