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American civil rights leader and minister Midnight, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Lamar Smith: 1955: 13 August American civil rights leader, farmer, and veteran Brookhaven, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Dr. Thomas Hency Brewer: 1956: 18 February American co-founder of an NAACP chapter Columbus, Georgia United ...
The Detroit chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild did not consider Chin's killing a violation of his civil rights. [29] At first, the ACJ was the only group that supported applying existing civil rights laws to Asian Americans. Eventually, the national body of the National Lawyers Guild endorsed its ...
For Helen Zia, an Asian American activist who moved to Detroit in the 1970s, Chin’s case laid bare the glaring injustices that her community faced. Lacking any local organizations to advocate for Asian American civil rights, Zia co-founded the American Citizens for Justice, which helped to secure a federal trial against Chin's killers.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American civil rights activists. It includes American civil rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Yoshihiro Hattori was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, the second of the three children of Masaichi Hattori, an engineer, and his wife Mieko Hattori. [6] He was 16 years old when he went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, in August 1992 as part of the American Field Service (AFS) student exchange program; he had also received a scholarship from the Morita Foundation for his trip.
The sentencing incited national outrage and fueled a movement for Asian American rights. [49] Vincent Chin's murder was the first federal civil rights trial for an Asian American. Led by activist Helen Zia, several Asian American lawyers and community leaders banded together to create American Citizens for Justice.
[9] [10] She co-founded the group American Citizens for Justice, a Detroit-based Asian American civil rights group. [11] [12] In 1983, Zia was the president of the American Citizens for Justice. [13] She has also been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women's rights and countering hate violence and homophobia.