Remembering Vincent Chin: August 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Vincent Who at MAPABA conference

Showing the movie Vincent Who today at Michigan Asian Pacific American Bar Association (MAPABA) conference in Detroit with Curtis Chin and Roland Hwang and Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.

Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese American raised in Metro Detroit who was beaten to death with a baseball bat a week before his wedding, June 19, 1982, by two autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who blamed the Japanese for the U.S. auto industry’s troubles. Ebens and Nitz were sentenced to 3 years probation and fined $3,780. Neither man spent a single day in jail for beating Vincent Chin to death. The movement gave a resonant political voice to previously silent Asian American communities across the nation and sparked the Asian American civil rights movement.

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Vincent Who at MAPABA conference