Zoot Suit Riots
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zoot-suit-riots-185-1788404
title:
Zoot Suit Riots
text:
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. It was one of the dozen wartime industrial cities that suffered race-related riots in the summer of 1943, along with Mobile, Alabama; Beaumont, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; and New York City. American servicemen and white Angelenos attacked and stripped children, teen
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description:
1943 race riot by U.S. Armed Forces servicemen against Latino Americans in Los Angeles
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots
date created:
2003-05-29T11:19:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T15:17:55Z
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