WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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resulted from tensions between African Americans and Mexican American communities
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led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits
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began when off-duty Mexican American soldiers refused to wear their military uniforms
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All these answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On June 3, 1943, a group of U.S. sailors marches through downtown Los Angeles, carrying clubs and other makeshift weapons and attacking anyone wearing a “zoot suit”-the baggy wool pants, oversized coats and porkpie hats favored by many young men of color at the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -The riots began on June 3, 1943, after a group of sailors stated that they had been attacked by a group of Mexican American zoot-suiters. As a result, on June 4 a number of uniformed sailors chartered cabs and proceeded to the Mexican American community, seeking out the zoot-suiters.
Detailed explanation-3: -On June 3, 1943, white U.S. servicemen and police officers descended upon a majority-Mexican American neighborhood in East Los Angeles, California, and harassed, beat, and detained hundreds of Mexican American youth. The violent riot was fueled by centuries of colonialism and white supremacy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wartime rationing regulations effectively banned zoot suits because they ostensibly wasted fabric, so a combination of patriotism and racism impelled white soldiers to denounce Mexican-American wearers of the zoot suit as slackers and hoodlums.