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Title:

Zoot Suit Riots [videorecording] / a production of WGBH Boston.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

PBS Video,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee.
Mexican Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
Mexican Americans--History--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Riots--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Tovares, Joseph.
Elizondo, Hector.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
PBS Video.

Other Titles:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program The American Experience in 2002. Narrator, Hector Elizondo.

Summary:

Racial tensions between the Anglo and Mexican American communities in Los Angeles, California erupted into violence after the conviction of Henry "Hank" Leyvas and seventeen other Mexican American youths for the murder of José Díaz in what was perceived as an unfair trial in 1943. Lorena Encinas, a witness to the murder, kept the real killer's identity a secret until the end of her life. Prominent members of the Los Angeles community worked to fund an appeal for the defendants, even as battles between unruly US Naval personnel and Mexican Americans rocked L.A.'s barrios. Surviving family members of the seventeen convicts, riot witnesses and members of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee tell the story of the riots, which is highlighted by photographs of the riots, the trial and their participants.

ISBN:

9780793693269
0793693268

OCLC:

(OCoLC)123557587

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)