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1. From a whisper to a rallying cry: the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement

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Yoo, Paula
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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Oberlin Regional - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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"A portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald...