Eighty years ago this month, Los Angeles was engulfed in the mayhem and violence that became known as the Zoot Suit Riots.
Radio stations broadcast the locations of where the next round of violence was expected to occur, and taxi drivers offered free rides to any white person heading to the areas.
Loren Miller, a journalist for the Los Angeles Sentinel in 1943, said in an interview that he had warned Mayor Fletcher Bowron, not for the safety of the Black residents of the neighborhood, but for the safety of the white mob that wasn’t aware of what was waiting for them. The neighborhood residents didn’t fight alone. Smith reported that “at least 500 Latinos came into the neighborhood — including members of the Jug Town, Adams, Clanton, Watts, 38th Street and Jardine gangs — to fight on behalf of the Black community against a common enemy.”
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