Zoot Suit Riots: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Mauricio Mazón, The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation (1984), provides a comprehensive analysis of the riots.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Experience - Zoot Suit Riots. Nov 06, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 04, 2026
Media added. Feb 28, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - Local News LA County supervisors denounce "devastation of the Zoot Suit Riots" on 80th anniversary. Jan 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Chapman University Digital Commons - Threads of the Zoot Suit Riots: How the initial explanations for the riots hold up today. May 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - An introduction to the history of the Zoot Suit Riots. Apr 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital History - The Zoot Suit Riots. Feb 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Zinn Education Project - June 3, 1943: The Zoot Suit Riots. Dec 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - "The Zoot Suit Riot". Sep 11, 2023
Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles. Jul 21, 2023
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Zoot Suit Riot Facts. Mar 04, 2022
Corrected display issue. Apr 27, 2018
Media added. Oct 16, 2015
Add new Web site: Smithsonian - The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: KCET - Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: KCET - Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Zoot Suit Riots. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Zoot Suit Riots. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Smithsonian - The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Almanac - Zoot Suit Riots. Mar 19, 2014
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Almanac - Zoot Suit Riots. Mar 19, 2014
New article added. Dec 13, 2013
New bibliography added. Dec 13, 2013
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