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Zoot suits were broad-shouldered jackets with balloon-leg pants, and sometimes a flamboyant hat.© ABC News Pachucos are male members of a counterculture that emerged in Texas, in the late 1930s ...
L.A. apologizes for city’s role in Zoot Suit riots Service members roamed the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, attacking people in zoot suits.
The tipping point that fueled the weeklong Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riot was the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder. The so-named Sleepy Lagoon was one of the larger reservoirs outside the city of Los Angeles.
In June 1943, roving bands of white servicemen accompanied by police unleashed mayhem on young Mexican, Black and Filipino Angelenos. The outburst of violence was dubbed the “Zoot Suit Riots ...
Eighty years ago this month, the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles led to brief unrest in San Diego. The so-called “riots” were a series of ethnically motivated attacks by military personnel and ...