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    The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed...
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    exploded in 1943 in a series of anti-Mexican riots in Los Angeles that became termed the Zoot Suit Riots. For ten days, white U.S. servicemen cruised...
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  • Suit is based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit Riots. Debuting in 1979, Zoot Suit was the first Chicano play on Broadway. In 1981, Luis...
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  • "Zoot Suit Riot" is a song by the American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, written by vocalist and frontman Steve Perry for the band's 1997...
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  • Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is a compilation album by the American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on March...
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  • Zoot Suit Riots throughout Los Angeles. The story is set in the barrios of Los Angeles in the early 1940s against the backdrop of the Zoot Suit Riots...
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  • of the Zoot Suit Riots as a backdrop. "Zoot-Suit Murders by Thomas Sanchez | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. "ZOOT-SUIT MURDERS...
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    American women who wore zoot suits during World War II, also known as "cholitas", "slick chicks", and "lady zoot suiters". The suit was a symbol of rebellion...
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    emerged in El Paso, Texas, in the late 1930s. Pachucos are associated with zoot suit fashion, jump blues, jazz and swing music, a distinct dialect known as...
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    the Zoot Suit Riots". Scripps Senior Theses – via JSTOR. Sleepy Lagoon Website Chiland, Elijah (June 5, 2016). "Mapping LA's Notorious Zoot Suit Riots"....
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  • Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also assist. The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots on June 3–8, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States...
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  • against Rodney King Watts riots, of 1965, following an arrest for drunk driving in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, in 1943, between Anglo...
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  • Look up zoot suit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A zoot suit is a style of clothing first popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Zoot suit may also refer...
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    fueled the Zoot Suit Riots; initiated by off-duty policemen conducting a vigilante-hunt, the riots targeted Chicano youth who wore the zoot suit as a symbol...
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    George. "Zoot Suit Riots". American History. Britannica Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 December 2020. Franco, Antonio. "Threads of the Zoot Suit Riots: How the...
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    criminality, and a lack of patriotism during World War II leading to the Zoot Suit Riots. Continuing until the early 1970s, the typical Chicano hairstyle was...
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    with their 1997 swing compilation Zoot Suit Riot. Released at the peak of the 1990s swing revival, Zoot Suit Riot sold over two million copies in the...
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    many Pachucos. A few Zoot Suits fights happened in East Los Angeles' streets like Whittier Boulevard. When the Zoot Suit Riots occurred in Los Angeles...
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    Operation Wetback Plan de San Diego Porvenir Massacre Sleepy Lagoon trial Zoot Suit Riots Chicano Movement Aztlán Black-brown unity Brown Berets Católicos por...
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  • other events in the film were based on real incidents, including the Zoot Suit Riots and an incident in which the U.S. Army placed an anti-aircraft gun...
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    anti-Mexican American violence during the Zoot Suit Riots that followed in 1943; despite the LAPD's insistence that the riots were caused by Mexican American crime...
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    experienced by Latino youth from the US military and police during the Zoot Suit Riots). The Mexican American Youth Organization was founded in San Antonio...
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    Mexican-Americans were wrongfully charged with murder—and the Zoot Suit riots. In 2019, the film Zoot Suit was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation...
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    Trayvon Martin Simultaneous 1992 riots: West Las Vegas riots Other Los Angeles riots: Watts riots (1965) Zoot suit riots (1943) George Floyd unrest (2020)...
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    the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police, called the Zoot Suit riots. The play moved to Broadway, and Olmos earned a Tony Award nomination...
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    Mexican males in Los Angeles, which became known as the Zoot Suit Riots. The worst of the riots occurred on June 9, 1943 during which 5,000 servicemen...
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    arrived in Los Angeles with orders to "determine whether the present Zoot Suit Riots were sponsored by Nazi agencies attempting to spread disunity between...
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    original on 2 September 2007. "Zoot Suits Riots". History.comdate=December 14, 2023. 9 August 2023. Peiss, Kathy (2011). Zoot Suit. University of Pennsylvania...
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    soldiers in Los Angeles during the event Urban decay Urban riots Watts Prophets Wattstax Zoot Suit Riots "Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles) | The Martin Luther King...
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  • Truth Homes Riot, February 28, Detroit, Michigan (race riot) 1943 – Beaumont race riot of 1943, June, Beaumont, Texas 1943 – Zoot Suit Riots, July 3, Los...
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