'21 Favorite: Zoot Suit Riots (1943) w/ Emily Spivack
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What's Going on in the Zoitsuit Riots?
Violence breaks out between two groups, mexican americans in los angeles and mostly white service men who have been shipped to california as part of their military training for world war too. The precipitating event here is kind of interesting. There had been thi still unsolved, murder called the sleepy lagoon murder of this mexican American man. And so they begin to have these street clashes, which will culminate in violence against latino men in the zoitsuit riotsye.
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