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Horrible, violent way. >> her only child. >> her only child. and it was as though he was killed again. she's two white killers get fined less than what you would pay for a used car. i just was so furious and upset by that. >> i thought that race was a factor. justice isn't blind. >> so you think that if vincent chin were white, the killers might have gotten a harsher sentence? >> oh, absolutely. vincent's life wasn't as much as a white man. >> i just thought this was wrong, this was so wrong, i have to do something about it. >> helen joined forces with lilly chin and other activists. they form...

Frustration on japanese cars. >> people were violent. >> it was not a great week to think that if i ran into the wrong person, i would be the enemy. >> they wanted to show a couple of things. >> helen would read in the paper about the death of a 27-year-old chinese american. >> in almost 10 years in detroit i had never seen an article about anything related to chinese americans and then to see this. the groom was killed just before his wedding. and his 400 wedding dpess weapon to his funeral instead. i kept it because i knew that there was something more to that story. >> it was on a summer ni...

Before. >> the american citizens for justice asked the judge to reconsider can the sentencing but were turned down. >> the decision was short and to the point. the three years probation and $3,000 fine will remain. >> but helen and lilly chin would not give up. >> i will continue to justice for my son. >> their last hope for them to serve proper jail time was to challenge the very definition of civil rights. they set out to prove to the federal government that vip sent was targeted and ultimately murdered because of his race. >> to get federal government to pay attention, we had to talk about ...

On ertz. >> over generations, millions of people's lively hoods depended on the industry. including helen. her princeton grad went on to medical school but had a change of heart and moved to motor city during the boom where she immediately got a job in the chrysler plant. >> i was a large press operator. we stamped out mettle car parts, you know, like a hood. a door. it was the highest pay i had ever received. >> but in 1979, helen and hundreds of thousands of workers felt the bottom drop out. >> oil is becoming scarce and far too expensive. >> detroit's auto industry was shattered by an inter...