Remembering Vincent Chin: Michigan State Bar Journal Article: Milestone Highlights Case that Gave Rise to Asian American Civil Rights Movement

Monday, June 1, 2009

Michigan State Bar Journal Article: Milestone Highlights Case that Gave Rise to Asian American Civil Rights Movement

Check out this article from the Michigan State Bar Journal (in PDF format) about the upcoming 34th Legal Milestone Dedication Ceremony:

Milestone Highlights Case that Gave Rise to Asian American Civil Rights Movement

www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article1517.pdf - 2009-05-06

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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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Monday, June 1, 2009

Michigan State Bar Journal Article: Milestone Highlights Case that Gave Rise to Asian American Civil Rights Movement

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