Remembering Vincent Chin: Asian American Journalists Association

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Asian American Journalists Association – Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship

From the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA):

In honor of Chin and thanks to the generosity of Joe Grimm, a former newsroom recruiter and staff development editor for the Detroit Free-Press, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) has established a college scholarship. This scholarship rewards an accomplished, community-minded student journalist for an insightful, articulate essay related to Chin and his legacy.

Essays due May 9, 2014.

Asian American Journalists Association – Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship

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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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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Asian American Journalists Association – Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship

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