By Elijah Chiland – LA.Curbed.com – Photo LA Public Library. Photo: Zoot suiters at a Grand Jury hearing following the riots. Though no lives were lost, many were injured and the LAPD largely ignored widespread and targeted violence against the...
By Alice Gregory/Smithsonian Magazine – SmithsonianMag.com – Photo Rue des Archives/Granger/NYC. Though the zoot suit would be donned by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, it was “not a costume or uniform from the world of entertainment,”...
By Kathleen Campos-Banales – mtholyoke.edu – Photo Meier & Rivera 145 During World War II, a lot of youths were expressing themselves through their outfits such as the zoot suits. Zoot suits “consisted of a broad-rimmed, flat hat; a long draped coat;...
By Scott Rappaport – News.ucsc.edu – Photo Kinan Valdez Cesar Chavez and Luis Valdez with Zoot Suit at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, 1979 Read...
By ElTeatroCampesino.com – Photo Jay Thompson/Center Theater Group On Tuesday, Jan. 31, a revival of “Zoot Suit” begins its run at the Taper, kicking off the theater’s 50th-anniversary season. A fantastical reimagining of the so-called Sleepy Lagoon murder case,...
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