On The Zoot Suit Riots and Me

On The Zoot Suit Riots and Me

By Kent Forrester – Ricochet.com – Photo Not Credited. Around 1948, Red and I, both around ten-years-old and, true to our Irish DNA, red-headed and as pale as the underside of a trout, wandered into a dicey area of Compton, California. We were out a bit...
Review of Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

Review of Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

By Lettycia Terrones – HBook.com – Photo Not Credited. In 1942 Los Angeles, after working all day at the canneries, teen sisters Lorena and Marisela can’t wait to put on their sharpest swing skirts and high heels for a night of jazz dancing with...
Today in history: Zoot Suit riots rock L.A.

Today in history: Zoot Suit riots rock L.A.

By Special to PeoplesWorld.org – PeoplesWorld.org – Image WInter Garden Theatre. Over the course of five days, beginning on June 3, 1943, simmering racial unease exploded as hundreds of white sailors stationed in Los Angeles stormed into East L.A. and...