This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, the five-day period in June 1943 when servicemen stalked the streets of Los Angeles attacking Mexican American zoot suiters.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For ten straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in search of "zoot-suiters" — hip, young Mexican teens dressed in baggy pants and ...

Depending on who is writing the history, the week of June 3, 1943, is referred to as either the beginning of Los Angeles’ Zoot Suit Riots or the time of its Sailor Riots. Regardless. From Los ...

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 ...

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For 10 straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in search of "zoot-suiters" — hip, young Mexican teens dressed in baggy pants and ...

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 ...