The year of 1982 marked the awakening of the Chinese American Civil Rights Movements. On June 23, 1982, 陈果仁 (Vincent Chin) was beaten to death by two white men in Detroit. The lenient sentence led to an outcry from Asian-American community. Some six hundred miles away in New York City, on November 19, tens of thousands of Chinese New Yorkers marched in the streets of NYC protesting the city’s proposal of building a new prison in the vicinity of Chinatown. Over the next forty years, as the number of jails increased, the political participation of Chinese New Yorkers increased as well. After many years of efforts, Chinese New Yorkers began to win more and more elected city seats.