Allegra and Mariano talk about the Zoot Suit Riot of the early 1940s. Servicemen in California attack the Mexican American youth in Los Angeles.

References

* history.com    Zoot Suit Riots  

* encyclopedia.com   Zoot Suit Riots   2004

* San Diego Mexican and Chicano History Chapter 8: World War II and the Emerging Civil Rights struggle  online  November 2011

Clips

Dorothy Dandridge "Zoot Suit" (1942)

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