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Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America - Events
Sleepy Lagoon & Zoot Suit Riots (1943)
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Zoot Suit Riots
Online Sources: Sleepy Lagoon Murder & Zoot Suit Riots
Calisphere: Sleepy Lagoon
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Governor's Citizen's Committee Report on Los Angeles Riots (1943)
S. Guy Endore papers, 1925-1970 (OAC)
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American violence; a documentary history
by
Richard Hofstadter (Editor); Michael Wallace (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; E179 .H8 1970
ISBN: 0394414861
Publication Date: 1970-10-01
The Sleepy Lagoon Case
by
Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth
Call Number: Online - HathiTrust
The zoot-suit riots : the psychology of symbolic annihilation
by
Mauricio Mazón
Call Number: upiter General Collection ; F869.L89 M56 1984
ISBN: 0292798016
Publication Date: 1984-12-01
The woman in the zoot suit : gender, nationalism, and the cultural politics of memory
by
Catherine S. Ramírez; Catherine S. Ramírez
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; E184.M5 R329 2009
ISBN: 9780822342861
Publication Date: 2009-01-16
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon Zoot suits, race, and riot in wartime L.A.
by
Eduardo Obregón Pagán; Eduardo Obregón Pagán
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; F869.L89 M566 2003
ISBN: 0807854948
Publication Date: 2003-11-24
César Chávez : a triumph of spirit
by
Richard Griswold del Castillo; Richard A. Garcia
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; HD6509.C48 G75 1995
ISBN: 0806127589
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity
by
Edward J. Escobar
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; HV8148.L55 E73 1999
ISBN: 0520920783
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
The battle for Los Angeles : racial ideology and World War II
by
Kevin Allen Leonard
Call Number: , Boca Raton General Collection ; F869.L89 A2535 2006
ISBN: 9780826340474
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights
by
Richard Griswold del Castillo (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; D769.8.F7 M48 2008
ISBN: 9780292717381
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
The Sleepy Lagoon case /
by
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (Los Angeles, Calif.); Welles, Orson, 1915-1985; Endore, S. Guy, 1901-1970.
Call Number: View Online HathiTrust
Publication Date: 1942
The Sleepy Lagoon murder case : race discrimination and Mexican-American rights
by
Mark A. Weitz
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection ; KF224.S49 W45 2010
ISBN: 9780700617470
Publication Date: 2010-10-29
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