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Zoot Suit Riots
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
Zoot Suit Riots
Season 14 Episode 6 | 51m 32s | CC
In June 1943, Los Angeles erupted into the worst race riots in the city to date. For ten straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in search of "zoot-suiters" — hip, young Mexican teens dressed in baggy pants and long-tailed coats. The military men dragged kids — some as young as twelve years old — and viciously beat them.
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