Useful Links
This day in History: The Zoot Suit Riots
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/zoot-suit-riots/
Mapping LA’s Zoot Suit Riots
https://la.curbed.com/maps/zoot-suit-riots-los-angeles
Song: Zoot Suit Blues
https://soundcloud.com/hillipsand/zoot-suit-blues
The Rise of Riots
The Sleepy Lagoon murder and zoot suit riots of 1943
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/zoot-rise-riots/
The Zoot Suit Riots Were Race RiotsIn 1943, white servicemen attacked young people of color for wearing the ultimate in street style—on the pretext that they were shirking wartime duty.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-zoot-suit-riots-were-race-riots/
the sleepy lagoon murder trial of 1942
https://research.pomona.edu/zootsuit/en/trial/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/zoot-suit-riots/
Mapping LA’s Zoot Suit Riots
https://la.curbed.com/maps/zoot-suit-riots-los-angeles
Song: Zoot Suit Blues
https://soundcloud.com/hillipsand/zoot-suit-blues
The Rise of Riots
The Sleepy Lagoon murder and zoot suit riots of 1943
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/zoot-rise-riots/
The Zoot Suit Riots Were Race RiotsIn 1943, white servicemen attacked young people of color for wearing the ultimate in street style—on the pretext that they were shirking wartime duty.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-zoot-suit-riots-were-race-riots/
the sleepy lagoon murder trial of 1942
https://research.pomona.edu/zootsuit/en/trial/
Primary Sources
1942: People v. Zamora (sic) 1943: Zoot Suit Riots
https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/people-v-zamorra
‘Zoot Suit’ and History- looks at a series of cartoons and newspaper articles about Zoot-suiters
https://ladailymirror.com/2011/06/30/zoot-suit-and-history-part-3/
Governor's Citizen's Committee Report on Los Angeles Riots, 1943.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=606
https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/people-v-zamorra
‘Zoot Suit’ and History- looks at a series of cartoons and newspaper articles about Zoot-suiters
https://ladailymirror.com/2011/06/30/zoot-suit-and-history-part-3/
Governor's Citizen's Committee Report on Los Angeles Riots, 1943.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=606
Lessons
Central Historical Question: What caused the Zoot Suit Riots?
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons/zoot-suit-riots?check_logged_in=1