Wartime Los Angeles’s Sleepy Lagoon Murder & Zoot Suit Riots w/ Eduardo Pagán – A True Crime History Podcast

I ran across this compelling podcast that offers a brief summary of a famous episode in Chicana/o history.  Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast looks at two famous events in early 1940s Los Angeles that grabbed newspaper headlines:  the murder of Jose Diaz and following trial of 22 boys, and the race riots between American sailors and zoot-suit wearing Mexican-American kids in downtown Los Angeles. Eduardo Obregón Pagán, a professor at Arizona State University. talks about his book, “Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.”

KJ

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