Where To Stream American Experience Season 14 Episode 8

In June 1943, Los Angeles erupted into the worst race riots in the city to date. For ten straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in search of "zoot-suiters" — hip, young Mexican teens dressed in baggy pants and long-tailed coats. The military men dragged kids — some as young as twelve years old — out of movie theaters, diners bars, and cafes, tearing the clothes off the young men's bodies and viciously beating them. Mexican youths...