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The Killing of Vincent Chin

07/02/2018

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Killing of Vincent Chin

The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement.

The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement in the USA in the 1980s.

In 1982 a young Chinese-American engineer was murdered with a baseball bat by two white men in the city of Detroit. The lenient sentences the perpetrators received sparked an Asian-American activist movement with protests across the USA. 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. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Helen Zia, one of the activists leading the fight for justice.

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