Thursday, June 23, 2022

Vincent Chin: The murder that sparked a civil rights movement

 


In June 1982 a young Chinese-American engineer was murdered with a baseball bat by two white men in the city of Detroit.

At the time America was going through an economic depression and many were blaming Japan which was perceived to be flooding the US with its cars. For Asian-Americans it was a time of fear.




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