By Khanya Khondlo Mtshali – Timeline.com – AP Photo. Photo: A young pachuco sporting a zoot suit being held on vagrancy charges in Los Angeles County jail during the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. (AP Photo) The tensions surrounding the zoot suit culminated in...
The word “chuco” is a word that evolved from the Indians and the Mexicans that lived in this area. It meant dirty, low class. This is where the criminal element if you will, lived. Mexicans passed through here to get to the U.S. and outlaws who were on the run would...
By Andrew McKirdy/Staff Writer – www.JapanTimes.co.jp – Photo: Yoshiaki Miura. Photo: Kazuhiko Kurita, dressed in a vintage suit with his replica Tommy gun, poses for a photo next to his 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline, at the Lowrider Super Show held in Makuhari...
By Clarissa M. Esguerra – Vestoj.com – Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Photo: Joaquin Porras, a zoot suit youth, was held as a robbery suspect on Friday, November 6, 1942. Read...
By Atlas Novack – SMMirror.com – Image Not Credited. Times change, but sometimes the headlines don’t. Luis Valdez’s groundbreaking play set on the streets of East Los Angeles depicts the lives of Mexican American youth who were unjustly indicted for the...
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