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Why was the zoot suit—high-waisted pants with baggy, pegged legs and a long coat with wide lapels—at the center of a wave of violence that gripped Los Angeles for five days in 1943? Popular among young Mexican American and Filipino American men in California during the early war years, the flamboyant zoot suit was more than a fashion statement.
27 Σεπ 2017 · The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 were violent clashes in which U.S. servicemen, police officers and civilians brutalized Latinos and other minorities in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Museum of Art purchased this rare 1940-42 zoot suit for its permanent collection of 20th-century menswear. Adding to the flamboyant look are a wide necktie called a belly...
2 Ιουν 2023 · 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...
13 Ιουν 2023 · 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. The...
26 Ιουν 2023 · These youths — one stripped of all his clothes, the others badly beaten — fell victim to bands of policemen who scoured the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, to beat and strip zoot ...
10 Ιουν 2018 · This June marks the 80th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, a dark period in Los Angeles and American history in which young Mexican, Filipinx and Black men and boys were attacked by servicemen and white Angelenos, driven by racial and anti-immigrant animus, throughout the city over the course of a week.
