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2. Zoot Suit Riots - Wikipedia

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   The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots [1] that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. [2]

3. Zoot suit - Wikipedia

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   A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit [1]) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. It is most notable for its use as a cultural symbol among the Hepcat and Pachuco subcultures.

4. List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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   Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century.

5. By exploring L.A.'s racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot ...

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   'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach Broadway. It changed Los Angeles' historical memory and the American theater forever

6. L.A. apologizes for city's role in Zoot Suit riots

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7. Category : Racially motivated violence in the United States

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8. L.A. County supervisors denounce 'dark chapter' of Zoot Suit ...

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   The L.A. County Board of Supervisors condemns the Zoot Suit Riots that targeted Latino, African American and Filipino youths 80 years ago.

9. Pachucas - Wikipedia

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   The suit was a symbol of rebellion due to the rationing of cloth for the war effort. Wearing the longer and loose-fitting jackets and pants was therefore seen as being unpatriotic. [1] The zoot suit was the most salient identifying feature of "pachuquismo", a Mexican American youth subculture.