In response to the injustices in the 1982 beating death of Vincent Chin in Highland Park, Michigan, members of the Asian American community assembled at 22828 Woodward Avenue in Ferndale, the former Golden Star Chinese Restaurant at the northeast block of Woodward and Nine Mile where Chin was employed. Ferndale became the birthplace in 1983 of the pan-ethnic Asian American civil and victim's rights movement, resulting in the formation of the civil rights organization American Citizens for Justice.