Zoot Suit Riots: Clothes, Culture, and Murder

by Barbara J. Turner, Lisa Greenleaf (Illustrator)

Overview

“We're looking for zoot suits to burn.”
Los Angeles, 1943-A city in chaos. Fear and paranoia gave way to turbulence and brutality. A circle of violence had begun and nobody seemed interesting in stopping it. A clash of culture had culminated with attaches on the innocent that intensified the racial divide of the era. The victims' only crime? Wearing a zoot suit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984254934
Publisher:	Apprentice Shop Books, LLC
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Once, in America Series
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	10.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	13 Years

About the Author

Barbara J. Turner is the author of A Little Bit of Rob, and Out and About at the Orchestra, and is also a contributing author to Apprentice Shop Books' America's Notable Women Series. She has always been interested in history, particularly in the story behind the story, and in what makes people do the things they do. She's found that history is more often made by ordinary people doing what they believe is right, rather than extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. She, herself, is an ordinary person, writing for ordinary kids who might someday, perhaps, make history themselves.

Table of Contents

TOC: Chapter 1: Jose Gallardo Diaz
Chapter 2: The Road to Ruin
Chapter 3: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial
Chapter 4: Riot!
Chapter 5: Freedom?
The Zoot Suit Riots Influence the Arts
Across the Nation
What About Today
Timeline
Glossary
Index
Photo/Illustration Credits
About the Author and Illustrator
Zoot Suit Summary