Who killed Vincent Chin? [videorecording] / a film by Christine Choy & Renee Tajima ; producer, Renee Tajima ; director, Christine Choy ; a production of Film News Now Foundation & WTVS/Detroit.
Persons interviewed: Lily B. Chin, Ronald Ebens, Michael Nitz, et. al. Public performance rights included.
Summary:
A film about the circumstances and aftermath of the baseball bat murder of 27-year-old Vincent Chin outside a Detroit bar in 1982. Outraged at the suspended sentence given to Ron Ebens and Michael Nitz, convicted in Chin's death, the Asian-American community organized an unprecedented civil rights protest to successfully bring Ebens and Nitz up for retriall. This film explores issues of racism and the loss of blue-collar jobs.
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