"From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry" -- those appropriate words are cast in a bronze plaque commemorating the rise of the Asian American civil rights movement that followed the 1982 beating death of Vincent Chin and the travesty of justice that ensued.
The plaque was unveiled Friday, June 19, as part of the State Bar of Michigan's 34th Michigan Legal Milestone dedication at the Chinese Community Center in Madison Heights. It will be erected in Ferndale along Woodward near where Vincent Chin worked part time in a Chinese restaurant.
State Bar president and Dickinson Wright member Ed Pappas and SBM executive director Janet Welch co-emceed the event.
"The Milestone program has been a point of pride for the State Bar," Pappas said. "It is one of the most successful public awareness programs we have."
This year, the SBM is drawing the public's attention to the Vincent Chin case.
"It was exactly 27 years ago today that a young Chines...