![]() ![]() Review posted on GoodReads on October 17, 2021 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.Įxtensively 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. 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. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. ![]()
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