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"Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up ever zoot suiter they could find. Pushing its way into the important motion picture theaters, the mob ordered the management to turn on the house lights and then ran up and down the aisles dragging Mexicans out of their seats. Streetcars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked from there seats, pushed into the streets and beaten with sadistic frenzy"  journalist Carey McWilliams

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Frankly, it was a really good idea that actually worked! It was a way for the United States to obtain cheap labor.

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Now we're completely switching topics!
Program was meant for Mexican Americans to fill the agriculture labor shortage.
The word bracero, means "manual laborer".
Workers were promised: decent living conditions, shelter, food and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour.
They faced some hostility for "taking American jobs." Some of this hostility fueled the Zoot Suit riots.

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“31 Best Zoot Suits Images on Pinterest.” Pintrest.com, i.pinimg.com/736x/99/e9/7f/99e97f0e47adde0446426464ea60d916--zoot-suits-mens-suits.jpg.

humanitiestennessee.org/sites/humanitiestennessee.org/files/BracerosField.JPG.

History.com Staff. “Zoot Suit Riots.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2017, www.history.com/topics/zoot-suit-riots.

Zoot Suitors Being Cool . i0.wp.com/www.mortaljourney.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ZootSuitersBeingCool.png.

Wwiihistory. “B3 - WWII History.” Latinos: Zoot Suit Riot, 1 Jan. 1970, wwiihistory-b3.blogspot.com/2009/02/latinos-zoot-suit-riot.html.

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The zoot suit garnered a somewhat racist reputation. Latino youths in California known as “pachucos”—often wearing flashy zoot suits, porkpie hats and dangling watch chains—were increasingly viewed by whites as menacing street thugs and juvenile delinquents.

Viewed as an unpatriotic symbol.

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The zoot suit riots increased intensity over time, but reached a climax June 4th, 1943 as brutal protests of the “Zoot Suiters”  broke out between Marines/servicemen and Mexican Americans---many of them teens.

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Who: Mexican Americans (mainly Latino youth) vs. LAPD

Where: mainly Los Angeles, California

When: June 1943