Remembering Vincent Chin: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

LG Almeda new ACJ President

First Board Meeting of 2009 tonight.

LG Almeda has been named Board President of American Citizens for Justice. Founding member and Former Board President Roland Hwang is now Vice President. Mary Kamidoi continues as Treasurer.

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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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

LG Almeda new ACJ President