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.

These youths, one stripped of his clothes and the others badly beaten, were victimized by police officers who scoured the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, ferreting out and beating zoot ...

You can't wear zoot suits in L.A." This led to the decline of the Pachuco subculture into the 1950s and, in the 1960s, according to research on Grinnell College's website.

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.

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 ...