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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...
L.A. County supervisors denounce 'dark chapter' of Zoot Suit Riots 80 years later
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoTwo young men who had been attacked by racist mobs on the streets of Los Angeles during the Zoot...
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.