Eighty years ago this month, Los Angeles was engulfed in the lawlessness and violence that became known as the Zoot Suit Riots. The name is misleading because it suggests that the zoot suiters ...

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 ...

Next to those words is an illustration of two young Mexican American men on the ground, victims of the Zoot Suit riots. As L.A. observes the 80th anniversary of the unrest, which largely unfolded ...

Experts and scholars say the causes of the ensuing violence, that came to be known as the Zoot Suit Riots, are complex and varied: a growing distrust of immigrants, rampant racism and a perceived ...

The zoot suit riots are considered to be "the first time in American history that fashion was believed to be the cause of widespread civil unrest," writes historian Kathy Peiss in Zoot Suit ...

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 ...

when American servicemen launched racially-motivated attacks against Mexican-American youth in what is today known as the Zoot Suit Riots. Sailors, soldiers, and marines on leave from World War II ...

80 years ago, young men of color were attacked for their “unpatriotic” fashion choices, leading to the Zoot Suit Riots. The repercussions can still be felt today. The zoot suit, with its ...

Pachuco is a term used in the 1940s to refer to Latinos who dressed in flamboyant attire and used a certain slang, a hybrid of English and Spanish. While the origin of the word pachuco is unknown ...

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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 ...