On June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was beaten to death in a hate crime in Detroit, Michigan by laid off autoworkers who blamed Chin for their unemployment. Read "Vincent Chin: Some Lessons and Legacies" in Hyphen magazine http://bit.ly/11O2P5u and see the film Who Killed Vincent Chin? on P.O.V.: http://to.pbs.org/11O2ZKk

"Your lives must teach you, too, that good cannot really flourish in the midst of evil; ... that civilization had not as yet progressed to the point where life did not have to be lost for the sake of life; and that we were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after us." Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, wrote this last letter to their children just before they were executed on 6/19/53. (Read letter in Voices of a People's History of the United States) Hear it read by David Strathairn and Eve Ensler: http://www.rfc.org/lastletter