Vincent Chin, the victim of a hate crime on June 19, 1982, whispered, "It's not fair" as he lay dying, and those words became a rallying cry for an Asian American community outraged by the lenient sentences his assailants received, helping to spur a civil rights movement. That evening, Chin and three friends were at a bar in Highland Park celebrating his upcoming wedding when an argument broke out with two auto workers who blamed Asians for taking away their jobs. After the group was kicked out of the bar, the two auto workers pursued and caught up with Chin and his friends on Woodward Avenue, where one held Chin while the other bludgeoned him with a baseball bat. Chin died four days later. In state court, the assailants received three years' probation and a $3,000 fine on a reduced manslaughter charge. A later federal criminal trial on civil rights charges ended with the conviction of one assailant and the acquittal of the other, but the conviction was overturned and the assailant was acquitted on retrial, so neither assailant ever served any time in jail. The case galvanized the Asian American community, led to the formation of groups including American Citizens for Justice and the Michigan Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and helped lay the basis for state and federal changes involving hate crimes, minimum sentencing guidelines, and victims' rights.