Remembering Vincent Chin: June 2022

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.

Remembering Vincent Chin

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

The Many Afterlives of Vincent Chin | The New Yorker

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

40 years after Vincent Chin’s death, activists work to keep legacy from fading | PBS NewsHour