CGTN America: Revisiting the Legacy of 19th Century Chinese Railroad Workers
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As part of that special coverage, correspondent Liu Xu takes an extraordinary look at the origins of anti-Asian hate in a place you might not associate with anything Chinese, Northern Utah.
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“When we don’t know someone’s life we don’t know how to empathize with them,” says Christopher W. Merritt, Utah State Historic Preservation officers. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) June 09, 2021 CGTN America releases “Revisiting the Legacy of 19th Century Chinese Railroad Workers”.
With anti-Chinese and anti-Asian attacks on the rise across the U.S., CGTN America reporters have been travelling across the country speaking to victims, law enforcement and community leaders.
A farm property where civil rights protesters once camped during the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama Cheryl Gardner Davis
From the Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah trading post for Navajo communities, the National Trust for Historic Preservation today detailed the sites that have been selected for its annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The list underlines the trust’s commitment to illuminating neglected corners of history especially African American and Native American history and the need to move swiftly lest crucial landmarks be lost.
“Finding places that will tell the full history of our country is a priority in all of our work,” said Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer for the trust, in an interview. This year, she adds, the organisation received 120 nominations from 40 states and Puerto Rico before narrowing the list to 11 places.
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Originally published on June 3, 2021 11:38 am
An unassuming roadside motel that s a spiritual home to the blues. A crumbling Navajo trading post standing right by Monument Valley, and an old filling station that offered refuge to Black travelers during Jim Crow. Campsites for crusading civil rights demonstrators in the 1960s and ones that housed Chinese railway workers a century before.
These are among the most endangered historic sites in the U.S. right now, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Every year, the organization issues a list of buildings and other places threatened by development, climate change or neglect.
SALT LAKE CITY For organizations that deal with graffiti and vandalism outdoors, the vandalism found at the Birthing Scene Petroglyph in Moab late last month was just one in a growing list of cases reported in Utah in recent months and years.
The recent case at the Birthing Scene Petroglyph and another case also found in the Moab area in April capture the most attention, but there are many cases of cultural and landscape vandalism reported at lesser-known sites. In fact, specialists and preservationists say they have found themselves handling all sorts of reports of cases across the state on a weekly basis.
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A bolted climbing route along petroglyphs on rock outside Moab, believed to be left by Indigenous people more than 1,000 years ago.
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