**Winner of the 2021 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction** **Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature** **Finalist for the 2022 YALSA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction** **An NPR Best Book of 2021** **A** Washington Post **Best Children’s Book of 2021** **A** Time **Young Adult Best Book of 2021** **A** Kirkus Reviews **Best Children’s Book of 2021** **A** Publishers Weekly **Best Young Adult Book of 2021** **A** School Library Journal **Best Book of 2021** **A** Horn Book **Best Book of 2021** **A compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed.** America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a ,000 fine and three years’ probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial―the first involving a crime against an Asian American―and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement. Extensively researched from court transcripts, contemporary news accounts, and in-person interviews with key participants, *From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry* is a suspenseful, nuanced, and authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, and a man who became a symbol against hatred and racism.