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Decades before Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was attacked while collecting cans in New York and Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally assaulted in San Francisco, Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat in Detroit by two white men who never served jail time. Forty years later — and amid a rise…

The city of Detroit is honoring Vincent Chin, an Asian American who was beaten to death. The men who beat Chin never served jail time. China's death sparked a civil rights movement.

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Vincent Chin was 27 years old and about to be married when he was murdered during a time of heightened anti-Japanese emotions. (Public Domain Photo) Forty years ago, when anti-Asian feelings were on the rise in Detroit’s auto plants, a Chinese American worker was murdered. What role did bigotry and prejudice play in his death? Since

Oral history project at MSU explores the aftermath of the racially motivated murder in Detroit 40 years later

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On June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin was celebrating his upcoming wedding at a bar in Highland Park, Michigan, with his friends when he encountered two white men, Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz. Descriptions of the events preceding Chin’s murder vary.

2022 marks 40 years since Vincent Chin’s brutal murder. The legal injustice that ensued from Chin’s death compelled the Asian American community into action and served as the impetus...

Read about the death of Vincent Chin, which galvanized advocates for Asian American civil rights.

But why is it often ignored in U.S. classrooms?