Zoot Suit Riots

I only recently learned about the Zoot Suit riots in the '40s; one of my wife's relatives were one of those sent to San Quentin.
Bill Boyarsky mentioned the period here in regards to how the media covered civil rightst:
"When World War II servicemen roamed through downtown Los Angeles attacking Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits-long jackets with wide shoulders, pegged and pleated trousers, long key chains and wide brimmed, flattop hats-the newspapers cheered. Police arrested the zoot suiters rather than the servicemen and, as an example of the slanted news coverage, the old Los Angeles Daily News delightedly reported “zoot suit … gangs of hoodlums continued to lose their trousers to service men, and in many cases nearly lost what was in ‘em.” And the Daily News was the city’s liberal newspaper."
- Not a good time for this city or journalism.