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Zoot Suit Riots. American Experience. A list of newspaper articles written about the Zoot Suit Riots. Images and primary source documents about the Zoot Suit Riots Archived July 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, from the University of California; Cosgrove, Stuart (1984). "The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare". History Workshop Journal. 18: 77– 91.
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After the Zoot Suit Riots, the convictions of the seventeen people were overturned. There was a lack of evidence to convict the defendants to begin with and it was Diaz's autopsy report that showed that he was highly inebriated and received trauma to the head, which likely could have been caused by his own doing. [23]
In what was known as the Zoot Suit Riots in May to June 1943, many Mexican-American zoot suiters from the segregated parts of town were attacked by white servicemen and residents of Los Angeles. Cloth was being rationed as part of the war effort , and the white servicemen and residents felt zoot suiters were wasting valuable resources by ...
The Los Angeles City Council formally apologized for its role in the racist and brutal attacks on young Latino, Filipino and Black Angelenos.
DDCP was a pre-sentence gathering of reputation information in the community, allowed under California law to be considered by the Court. The DDCP was a repository of sources for the court to consider in its sentencing disposition. Soon however, it was dubbed the Alpha File by several attorneys and the ACLU filed suit against the City of Los ...
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors condemns the Zoot Suit Riots that targeted Latino, African American and Filipino youths 80 years ago.