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Silence gives way to defiance after hate crime

Editor's note: On June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin was savagely beaten in an attack in Detroit that led to his death days later. His killers, two white men, never spent a day in jail. This page looks back at the moment when Asian Americans finally found their voice, both in their cries for justice for Chin and an end to long-standing racism. This is the final report in a three-part series on race issues in the US.

Nearly 40 years ago, a Metro Times reporter helped turn the killing of Vincent Chin into a movement for Asian American rights

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