The Zoot Suit Riots

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Education

Tags:

• Sleepy Lagoon
• Zoot
• Pachuco
• LA
• Sailor
• swing
• jazz
• suit
• Zoot Suit
• Riot
• california
• 1940s Zoot suit Jazz dance

[djsoss1980]

@cazarez0714, it is believed that the first Zoot Suit was ordered by a black man in Harlem. The suit traveled from East to West and ended up in the West coast around 1940's where Blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Philippines and the Hipsters wore them. The Pachucos were around a long time, way before the Zoot Suit came along as a matter of fact they thought the suit was to pretty boy at first.

[djsoss1980]

The one dislike must be from a lame, oh well..LOL

[73CharlieBrown73]

whats the name of the song in the begining

[djsoss1980]

@73CharlieBrown73

I don't know.

[djsoss1980]

If you want to be part of the movement I will post the link to the Facebook group shortly, look for it above.

[djsoss1980]

@TheJonyBoy510 call the 1-800 that's listed on the PBS website, I actually called to order one but since they are out of print they were more than happy to send me a free copy. ;-)

[waltervb3]

my mom said the fights were between the neighborhood boys who went to war and the neighborhood bullies who picked on the soldiers younger brother while they were away

[waltervb3]

so it started because a mexican american "gang member" stabbed a mexican american solider

[cazarez0714]

10:11 "a stylre borrowed from African Americans?? WTF

[smallchick451]

isnt there a part two? there's more right?

[kahernandez]

Thank you for uploading this! I've been looking for this every where, and it was out of print every where.

[vfjvbe]

THIS WAS SO GOOD!!