Remake of Zoot Suit Riots Timeline by Cecilia Salas https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z Made with history- C.Salas en-us 2020-09-24 16:43:16 UTC 2026-02-27 21:12:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/749749929/d878f3b6f31dfde1705bff4fde1f2123/Zoot_Suit_1978_Ignacio_Gomez_Smithsonian.jpg 1929-1936 - Mexican "Repatriation" 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776624248 Relatives and friends wave goodbye to a train carrying 1,500 people being expelled from Los Angeles back to Mexico in 1931.

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The Mexican Repatriation was a mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the United States between 1929 and 1936. Estimates of how many were repatriated range from 400,000 to 2,000,000 (Wikipedia).

This followed the Wall Street crash of 1929, and resulting growth in nativist sentiment, exemplified by President Herbert Hoover's call for deportation and a series on the racial inferiority of Mexicans run by the Saturday Evening Post.
]]> 2020-09-24 16:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776624248 1933 - FDR Takes Office 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776624256 On March 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt became the 32nd president of the United States. It was the start of what became known as the New Deal.

This is the first page of FDR’s reading copy of his first inaugural address. To see the full document and much more related to FDR’s four inaugurations, visit the FDR Library website.]]> 2020-09-24 16:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776624256 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776624259 2020-09-24 16:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776624259 The Bracero program- August 4, 1942 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776652218 The Bracero Program was created by executive order in 1942 because many growers argued that World War II would bring labor shortages to low-paying agricultural jobs. On August 4, 1942 the United States concluded a temporary intergovernmental agreement for the use of Mexican agricultural labor on United States farms (officially referred to as the Mexican Farm Labor Program), and the influx of legal temporary Mexican workers began. But the program lasted much longer than anticipated. In 1951, after nearly a decade in existence, concerns about production and the U.S. entry into the Korean conflict led Congress to formalize the Bracero Program with Public Law 78.

]]> 2020-09-24 16:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776652218 José Díaz murder-August 2,1942 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776698726 José Díaz, a 22-year-old farmworker, was murdered on his way home from a neighbor's birthday party early on the morning of August 2, 1942. In the years to come, the details of his life would be largely forgotten to all except his family. The Los Angeles police used his murder to launch a widespread attack on what they perceived as an unruly and rapidly multiplying Mexican American youth "element."]]> 2020-09-24 16:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776698726 Sleepy Lagoon Trials(People v. Zammora)-August 2,1942 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776812139 In the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, officially called  People v. Zammora, Parra was convicted of murder in the second degree of José Díaz with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. He was sentenced to serve five years to life at San Quentin. In 1944 he was sent to Chino Honor Prison for good behavior.]]> 2020-09-24 17:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776812139 The Mexican Revolution- November 20, 1910 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776833162 The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910, ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic. A number of groups, led by revolutionaries including Francisco Madero, Pascual Orozco, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, participated in the long and costly conflict.]]> 2020-09-24 17:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776833162 Attack on Pearl Harbor-December 7, 1941 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776938712 Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.]]> 2020-09-24 17:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776938712 The Bataan Death March- April 1942 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776980133 The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. During this infamous trek, known as the “Bataan Death March,” the prisoners were forced to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice during the entire journey. By the end of the march, which was punctuated with atrocities committed by the Japanese guards, hundreds of Americans and many more Filipinos had died.]]> 2020-09-24 17:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/776980133 War Production Board prohibits the manufacture of zoot suits- Summer of 1942 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777075477 The WPB rules effectively prohibited zoot suits, which required extra fabric.  Even though most tailors stopped making suits that fell outside the WPB guidelines some men still wanted zoot suits and a network of bootleg tailors based in Los Angeles and New York City continued to make them.  By the 1940s, zoot suits were strongly associated with gang members and gangsters.]]> 2020-09-24 18:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777075477 U.S. Army soldiers begin enforcing Executive Order 9066- February 19,1942 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777116257 Executive Order 9066 authorized military commanders to exclude civilians from military areas. Although the language of the order did not specify any ethnic group, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt of the Western Defense Command proceeded to announce curfews that included only Japanese Americans.]]> 2020-09-24 18:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777116257 The Zoot Suit Riots in LA- June 3, 1943 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777194271 On June 3, 1943, a group of U.S. sailors marches through downtown Los Angeles, carrying clubs and other makeshift weapons and attacking anyone wearing a “zoot suit”—the baggy wool pants, oversized coats and porkpie hats favored by many young men of color at the time.]]> 2020-09-24 18:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777194271 U.S. military personnel are barred from leaving their barracks- After zoot suit riots 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777197073 In the summer of 1943, tensions ran high between zoot-suiters and the large contingent of white sailors, soldiers and Marines stationed in and around Los Angeles. Mexican Americans were serving in the military in high numbers, but many servicemen viewed the zoot-suit wearers as World War II draft dodgers (though many were in fact too young to serve in the military).
Sevircemen weren't allowed to leave their post after this occuring.]]> 2020-09-24 18:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777197073 The Navy & Marine Corps Reserve Armory (Chavez Ravine) is completed- 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777554903 The Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center was built between 1938 and 1941 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the Art Deco style as part of the "New Deal". ]]> 2020-09-24 20:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777554903 All of the Sleepy Lagoon verdicts are overturned- October 2, 1944 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777584456 On October 2, 1944, the Second District Court of Appeals overturned all of the Sleepy Lagoon verdicts, and the case of People v. Gus Zamora was dismissed. All 17 defendants were released with their records cleared. Officially, the murder of Jose Diaz remains unsolved.]]> 2020-09-24 20:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777584456 LA City Council criminalizes the wearing of "zoot suits with reat pleats within the city limits of LA"- 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777630108 The Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution criminalizing the wearing of "zoot suits with reat pleats within the city limits of LA" after Councilman Norris Nelson stated "The zoot suit has become a badge of hoodlumism". No ordinance was ever approved by the City Council or signed into law by the Mayor, although the council did encourage the War Production Board to take steps "to curb illegal production of men's clothing in violation of WPB limitation orders."]]> 2020-09-24 21:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777630108 LaRue McCormick founds The Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth- March 14,1943 3036773 https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777641619 At the time People v. Zammora went to trial, labor activist LaRue McCormick had formed an ad hoc committee, called the Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth (C.C.D.M.A.Y.), that included many influential and prominent people as its members. ]]> 2020-09-24 21:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3036773/pzv1zijtrttlcq7z/wish/777641619