America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.
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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, and authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, and a man who became a symbol against hatred and racism..
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.
When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years\' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage.
Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the Killing and the Trial and verdicts That followed.
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 and his stepson, Michael Nitz.
Anti-Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. autoworkers out of their jobs.
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.
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