My history day project is about Vincent Chin, a young man of Chinese descent who was beaten to death with a bat in 1982 near Detroit, Michigan. I chose this topic because my parents are originally from Laos, and I wanted to learn more about my heritage. I wanted to know more about Asian culture in the United States at the time my parents moved here in the 1980s. I found plenty of secondary sources when I was doing research, mostly websites and a few books. These sources helped me understand the basic idea of Chin’s story. In particular, the Asian-American Journalist Association site provided me with background information and pictures for my project. Overall, the secondary sources gave me a broad understanding of the facts of the case and the tension between Asian-Americans and Detroit autoworkers at the time of the murder and after the lenient sentence of the accused killers. My primary sources helped me gain a deeper understanding of my topic. The most helpful sources were the film, newspaper articles, and interviews. The film Who Killed Vincent Chin? from the 1980’s helped me know why each group was upset. Newspaper articles from the time explained what was happening in the moment. My email interviews with Gary Koivu, Chin’s friend, and Ross Parker, Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office of Criminal Division in Detroit in the 1980s, gave me differing points of view about Chin’s case. My email interview with Annie Tan, Chin's second cousin, helped me understand today's perspective of the Asian-American civil rights movement. I chose to design a website because I had many images, audio, and video that I wanted to use in my project. I organized my site by my research categories, including background, main story, impact, connection to the NHD theme, and legacy. I used pictures from Chin’s story as banner images to help show what happened. At first, it was difficult to understand the different legal issues in the case, but I worked with teachers who helped me understand them better. I found the Weebly program easy to use and be creative. The Death of Vincent Chin connects with the NHD theme of “Conflict and Compromise in History” in several ways. There was conflict and tension between Asian-Americans and autoworkers in the 1980s. That conflict led to a fight, in which Chin was killed. The plea deal for the accused killers was a compromise between the two sides in the case, changing the charge from second-degree murder to manslaughter. This compromise led to more conflict as a group in Detroit formed to protest the lenient sentence. Conflict continued in the trials that followed, including two federal cases and a civil suit. Even though Ebens and Nitz never served any time for their crime, Ebens apologized thirty years later in an interview for what he had done. Chin’s death brought together Asian-Americans and other minorities to stand for justice. This event was the beginning of the Asian-American civil rights movement.