This inspired other Asian Americans across the country to hold their own demonstrations. This grassroots advocacy organization rallied with several diverse groups-churches, synagogues, Black activists-to protest Kaufman's sentencing. Led by activist Helen Zia, several Asian American lawyers and community leaders banded together to create American Citizens for Justice. Judge Kaufman's lenient sentencing angered not just Vincent Chin's family, but the entire Asian American community.
She's now a TV writer and producer in addition to being the author of several children's books about famous Asian Americans.
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She started doing some reading and research, which eventually turned into her latest non-fiction book, geared toward young adults, which will be published next month: From A Whisper to A Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement.įull disclosure - Paula and I first met in the 90s when we both worked for People magazine in Los Angeles - so I've known her for years. But as an adult, she became fascinated by Chin's story and how it spurred a new generation of Asian Americans into political action. Yoo didn't learn much about Chin's killing when it actually happened - let alone imagine that it would eventually become the subject of one of her books. Those men were apparently upset by their perception that American auto jobs were disappearing as a result of Japanese success in the auto industry.
Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman who was celebrating his impending wedding at a strip club in Detroit, when he was bludgeoned to death by a pair of white men. Writer Paula Yoo was 13 years old and finishing up seventh grade when Vincent Chin was killed. The cover of Paula Yoo's forthcoming book From A Whisper To A Rallying Cry
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