华工从淘金时代的1849年开始就是加州最主要的劳动力。Sacramento河是加州最重要的一条河。
Sacramento河的治理主要是万千华工做的。
这些土地,本来是属于华工的, 但后来被白人无耻占有了。
湾区的朋友们, 这些历史离你们很近。不过几十英里.
感受一下华人为这片土地做出的巨大贡献。
The recent disastrous floods in California put the spotlight on the extensive network of levees in California's Central Valley. These levees don't just protect the farmland, there was no farmland until they were built. These levees--that turned swampland into farmland--were built in the 1880s by thousands of Chinese immigrants. What happened to those Chinese laborers? Many of them farmed and worked on some of the land that they wrenched from the swamps. But by the late 1890s, nearly all of the Chinese immigrant laborers who reclaimed the Delta were driven off this land by racist laws and lynchmob terror.
www.revcom.us/a/firstvol/890-899/894/chines.htm
1. Sacramento 三角洲
2. 纪念亭
3. Sacramento 河堤
4. 良田何止万顷
5. 不能忘记的历史