Zoot Clothing

I have no idea what it is.
i google and everything that arises is clothing people.
I need information on this topic for a project to IM.
I know that many Mexicans have been abused but I do not know why?

On August 1, 1942 Jose Diaz was struck by a car and it died and 21 people were arrested and charged with murder. They wear zoot suits during the trial to show that they were they were thugs. Nine of the defendants were sentenced to five years in prison. In 1943, the riot "zoot suit" or "marine riots" erupted in Los Angeles.The attacked zoot suited all they could. The military has finally put out of reach of Los Angeles and turned the zoot suit trial verdict. Enter zoot suit trial in Yahoo.

This was a period in the 1940s in Southern California where the Latino population has been targeted by military personnel and store owners. After a white sailor was killed in a street fight with the Mexican American boys. they went after all Latino or dark-skinned person who wore a sports jacket and long pants baggy dress costume called a zoot. Many people were injured and some women were raped, even by the military. A portrait is what would be the movie "American Me"

Read a good summary here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_R ...

It was the Rodney King incident is the day, this time it was the military revolt against the Mexicans because of the killing of a sailor.

The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that erupted in Los Angeles, California, during World War II, between sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city white and Latino youth, who were recognizable by zoot suits they favored.

The riots began in Los Angeles, amidst a period of rising tensions between U.S. troops stationed in southern California and the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles. On May 31, 1943, a group of white sailors on leave in conflict with a group of young Latinos in the city center. One sailor, Joe Dacy Coleman, was stabbed in the melee. The escalation of violence that sailors and Marines have continued to clash with the Mexican-American youth, specifically targeting young men wearing zoot suits and calling himself pachuco. The Los Angeles Police initially refused to act as the newspaper, run by various newspapers publishing Hearst put the blame entirely on the pachuco. As the violence escalated in the days that followed, thousands of soldiers joined the attack.