Zoot Suit Riots 75

Rioting military found at PUT this ON. (Even references Teds.)

And 75 years ago this weekend, on June 3, 1943, the zoot suit became forever tied to one of the darkest periods in the region’s history when U.S. military men took the streets of Los Angeles attacking young Mexican-American men, targeting those adorned in the attire.

Oddly, this naval activity is not mentioned in the revised version (1999) of The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II, by Robert J. Cressman, Contemporary History Branch, Naval Historical Center.

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