How Vincent Chin is being remembered, 40 years after his death 

As cities nationwide commemorate the death of Vincent Chin, civil rights advocates say this anniversary is particularly resonant in light of increasing hate

As cities nationwide commemorate the death of Vincent Chin, civil rights advocates say this anniversary is particularly resonant in light of increasing hate and violence aimed at Asian Americans.

Sunday marks 40 years since the death of Chin, a Chinese American man who was killed in Detroit by two white autoworkers who blamed him for layoffs in the industry.

Bettman Archive / Getty ImagesChin, 27, was celebrating his bachelor party with friends on June 19, 1982, when he was beaten to death by Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz. They wrongly accused Chin of being Japanese and of stealing their jobs. The men involved in Chin’s death never served jail time.  

Decades later, advocates said the racial reckoning that emerged in the wake of Chin’s killing paved the way for the latest movement condemning anti-Asian hate in the U.S.

“The Vincent Chin case was the first time that Asian Americans came together in a broad base, mass way to say, ‘You know what, we’re all in this together,'” said Helen Zia, the executor of the Chin estate and one of the co-founders of American Citizens for Justice, an Asian American civil rights group founded in response to Chin’s killing. “Many different Asian advocacy organizations were born out of that moment to say ‘never again.’” 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/vincent-chin-remembered-40-years-death-rcna33775


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