Rock Springs, Wyoming, sees new effort to memorialize massacred Chinese workers

WBUR

Published September 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM EDT

Rock Springs, Wyoming, is a railroad town built on immigrant labor. A new effort to memorialize a massacre of Chinese workers, though, is ruffling feathers.

Jenna McMurtry reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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