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The Zoot Suit Riots followed the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, after the death of a young Latino man in what was then an unincorporated commercial area near Los Angeles. Similar racist violence against Latinos happened in Chicago , San Diego , Oakland , Evansville , Philadelphia , and New York City as well. [ 4 ]
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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 ...
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The Los Angeles City Council formally apologized for its role in the racist and brutal attacks on young Latino, Filipino and Black Angelenos.
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, [15] took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African American man, was pulled over for drunken driving .
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors condemns the Zoot Suit Riots that targeted Latino, African American and Filipino youths 80 years ago.