Not more than an hour ago I finished watching the movie "Zoot Suit" with Edward James Olmos from 1981that ties to TDIH. Coincidence or not?
On this day in 1943, Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory attacked Mexican-American youths sparking a week-long ethnic conflict known as the “zoot suit riots.” (FYI: the victims were Mexican American not ‘Latinx’ since this was pre-Stonewall, pre-Gloria Anzaldua) #factspic.twitter.com/FQSS3s0KVw
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And Filipino-Americans and African-Americans were also attacked. My grandmother told me the story years later when the "Zoot Suit" play first opened in LA. Ugly moment in LA history.
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