Missouri
The history of Chinese people in Missouri is primarily centered around the St. Louis Chinatown, called "Hop Alley" in the 1960s. According to the history of Joplin, the Chinese were primarily drawn to the area to build the transcontinental railroad.
Read more about this topic: Chinatowns In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word missouri:
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Then they seen it, the old Missouri River shinin’ in the moon and across it the lights of St. Louis.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)