Posted on Mar 28, 2021
How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice
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Writer Paula Yoo was 13 years old and finishing up seventh grade when Vincent Chin was killed. Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman who was celebrating his impending wedding at a strip club in Detroit, when he was bludgeoned to death by a pair of white men. Those men were apparently upset by their perception that American auto jobs were disappearing as a result of Japanese success in the auto industry. (Chin was Chinese.)
How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice
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The men that did this crime didn't care about where he was from, he was Asian and that's all that they needed to kill him shipmate PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Issue is not just his death, but the lack of justice afterwards. His killers initially received probation and a fine at their criminal trial. Although his family successfully sued in civil court years later, they were unable to collect the full complete amount from the defendants
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/vincent-chin-is-murdered-detroit
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/vincent-chin-is-murdered-detroit
Chinese American Vincent Chin, 27, is beaten in the head with a baseball bat by two white autoworkers in Detroiton June 19, 1982.Chin died in a hospital four
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