Search results
Zoot suit: How the bold look made history and continues to influence fashion
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Rachelle Baker / For The Times) A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It...
Column: Sleepy Lagoon, the Zoot Suit riots and the lonely grave in East L.A. that history has...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe grave of Jose Diaz, a 22-year-old man whose murder in 1942 led to the Zoot Suit riots but who...
The untold story of the Zoot Suit riots: How Black L.A. defended Mexican Americans
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoL.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the...
By exploring L.A.'s racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach...
L.A. County supervisors denounce 'dark chapter' of Zoot Suit Riots 80 years later
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo young men who had been attacked by racist mobs on the streets of Los Angeles during the Zoot...
L.A. apologizes for city's role in Zoot Suit riots
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoService members roamed the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, attacking people in zoot suits. (Associated Press) In the very chamber where Los...
Low & slow: New Mexico State University Museum takes a look at lowrider culture on the border
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 7—In New Mexico, lowrider culture has not only endured but grown over the decades. The culture is a symbol for identity and heritage for many Mexican Americans. It's no different along ...
Letters to the Editor: Sleepy Lagoon and L.A. law enforcement's failure to solve a young Latino's...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTo the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a precursor to the following year's Zoot Suit riots — was touching.
Podcast: Lowriders lawfully cruise again
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA lowrider cruises through Elysian Park for the Zoot Suit Riots Cruise (Steve Saldivar / Los Angeles Times) Few things are more beautiful on a California...
93-year-old civil rights icon celebrates Chicano art with tequila shots in downtown Fresno
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA downtown Fresno night that mixed poetry and history with shots of Tequila Herradura wouldn’t end...
