On Tues., March 29, Public Broadcasting Service will air writer-director Joseph Tovares’s Zoot Suit Riots, the story of the huge 1942-1943 race riots that were spurred by the Los Angeles police dragnet arrests of 600 young Mexican Americans, ongoing street battles between whites and Mexican Americ.
American Experience Zoot Suit Riots To Have Encore BroadcastTuesday, March 29, 2022 on PBS and PBS.org 80 Years Ago, the Murder of a Young Mexican-American Man Ignited a Firestorm of Racial Tens