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Title: 'The Zoot Suit Riots' Lecture - Tuesday, April 14
Post by: jay on April 11, 2009, 05:46:30 AM
Lunch & Learn at the Library
presents

'The Zoot Suit Riots'
By YSU's Dr. Meahera Gerardo

Tuesday, April 14, at Noon

- Location -
Main Library
305 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, Ohio

In 1943 during World War II, Los Angeles experienced a 10-day race riot during which white servicemen beat and stripped Mexican-American and African-American youths who wore zoot suits.  Mr. Meahera Gerardo of YSU's history department will take us back to that time to recreate the events and examine the motives that led to them.

Bring a Brown Bag Lunch
Coffee Provided