From A Whisper To A Rallying Cry The Killing Of Vincent Chin And The Trial That Galvanized The Asian American Movement Paula Yoo by Paula Yoo 9781324002871, 1324002875 instant download after payment.

America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise & believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens & his stepson, Michael Nitz.

Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing & the trial & verdicts that followed. When Ebens & Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter & received only a $3,000 fine & three years' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial--the first involving a crime against an Asian American--and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement.

Extensively researched from court transcripts, contemporary news accounts, and in-person interviews with key participants, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a suspenseful, nuanced, & authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, & a man who became a symbol against hatred & racism.