North Carolina Asian American Civil Rights Conference:
Defining the Movement
March 21, 2015
9:00am - 3:30pm
The Asian American communities at Duke and UNC-CH, and the Asian American Legal Network are partnering to host the inaugural NC Asian American Legal Conference. When talking about race, Asians are often marginalized or overlooked. The goal of the NC AACRC is to explore and examine the history of civil rights issues faced by Asian Americans in society, along with where the Asian American Civil Rights Movement is today. The conference will be held at UNC School of Law | VanHecke-Wettach Hall | 160 Ridge Road. The detailed schedule can be found under PROGRAMMING.
The Killing of Vincent Chin Trial Reenactment
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese American raised in Metro Detroit who was beaten to death with a baseball bat a week before his wedding, June 19, 1982, by two autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who blamed the Japanese for the U.S. auto industry’s troubles. Ebens and Nitz were sentenced to 3 years probation and fined $3,780.Neither man spent a single day in jail for beating Vincent Chin to death. The movement gave a resonant political voice to previously silent Asian American communities across the nation and sparked the Asian American civil rights movement.
To produce a reenactment, the group pulls together excerpts from trial transcripts, testimony, and briefs, along with other original documents.
This presentation is based on a script written by the
Asian American Bar Association of New York and Frank H. Wu.