'If we all do something, it becomes a movement.' Helen Zia became an activist because, well, she couldn't help it.
In 1982, racism and hatred toward Asian Americans led to the. He was a Chinese American man in Detroit killed by two autoworkers who thought he was Japanese, whom they blamed for the industry's struggles. His killers paid a $3,000 fine each and went free.
Zia was a Chinese American journalist who became the spokesperson for the Justice for Vincent Chin campaign, which brought different Asian American communities together to fight for civil rights and demand an end to racial intolerance. "I felt like not just an alien, but an alien from Mars. Whenever we walked into a diner or a store, everybody in that place would look and stare. People told me I didn't belong here. 'Go back where you came from' was something I heard on a regular basis."
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