With the help of 20 taxicabs, the servicemen hunt anyone in a zoot suit. The Associated Press, reporting from the scene, writes that the servicemen applied “fists and rope ends to zoot-suited ...

when a group of white sailors falsely claimed they’d been jumped by young Latinos wearing zoot suits. Pandemonium ensued. On June 3, a group of unruly sailors chartered 20 cabs to drive them to ...

When the violence ended, scores of Mexicans and servicemen were in hospital beds. Zoot Suit Riots is a powerful film that explores the complicated racial tensions and the changing social and ...

The attacks became known as the Zoot Suit Riots. They began on May 31 with a street scuffle and escalated on June 3, June 4 and June 20 of 1943, according to historical articles and records. Soldier, ...

Pachucos, young Mexican Americans with a penchant for flashy attire, embraced zoot suit fashion, jump blues, jazz and swing music and affirmed their self-empowerment by rejecting assimilation into ...

The attacks became known as the Zoot Suit Riots. They began on May 31 with a street scuffle and escalated on June 3, June 4 and June 20 of 1943, according to historical articles and records.