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 ...

Two Black teenagers wearing zoot suits had to seek refuge at the Pasadena ... Civilian police, meanwhile, arrested more than 20 Black and Mexican American teens for continuing to throw rocks ...

The Sleepy Lagoon murder and zoot suit riots of 1943. Eduardo Obregón Pagán Share: Copy Link From the Collection ... Service men on the streets in search of zoot suiters, Los Angeles, California ...

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.