Remembering Vincent Chin: Have you heard about the Vincent Chin case? Michigan edition

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Have you heard about the Vincent Chin case? Michigan edition

Today we asked our class how many were from Michigan. Over 60%. How many had heard of the Vincent Chin case? Zero. wow.

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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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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Have you heard about the Vincent Chin case? Michigan edition

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