
233 - Free Range Children
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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The Zoot Suit Is Harmful to the War Effort
boot lege tailors continue to make the zoot suits, which uses a lot of rationd fabrics. And so white people view the zoot suot itself is harmful to the war effort. The young people who wear them are seen as american and unpatriotic, which is just an excuse for ther racism. It's always that it's unPatriotic, rar against the military, exactly. It's all this. Especially because by world war too, a migration had piqued. So there was a lot of tension going on in los angeles. And don't forget that this was also a time when japanese Americans were forcibly ant to interment
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