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In April 2016, Chinese Railroad Workers Project scholars from Canada, China, Taiwan, and the U.S. traveled to the Sierra Nevada mountains to explore tunnels — many of them cut from solid granite — that Chinese workers excavated.
The terrain was unforgiving, even in the spring. Fisher told The New York Times that the guide she and her colleagues had been traveling with slipped on a patch of black ice in a tunnel and broke their shoulder.
“We literally would not be sitting in these buildings — these buildings would not exist — without the work of these Chinese workers.”
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The labor was undoubtedly dangerous. Chang said that great numbers died, perhaps over 1000 workers. Construction casualty records were not kept, so the specific number remains unknown, but historians estimate that one in 10 workers lost their life from explosion accidents, landslides, avalanches, heatstroke or hypothermia. Research also shows the callous way in which Chinese workers, whose individual names were not recorded by Central Pacific, were often treated.
“To avoid interrupting construction schedules, labor contractors and line supervisors maintained a pool of able-bodied men who could replace injured and dead workers at a moment’s notice,”
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Slash and burn farming is a form of shifting agriculture where the natural vegetation is cut down and burned as a method of clearing the land for cultivation, and then, when the plot becomes infertile, the farmer moves to a new fresh plat and does the same again. This process is repeated over and over.
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Explanation: Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister, scholar and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. His "I have a dream speech" is popular all around the world. He believed in a moderate non-violent approach for achieving equality.
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was also very popular during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his staunch and controversial black racial advocacy and his belief that the movement's aim be achieved by any means necessary.
Luther King advocated non-violent direct action and passive resistance while Malcolm X urged his fellow black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression by any means necessary, even violence. This basic difference in their strategies often made them at odds with each other.
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