Zoot Suit Riots.

This documentary explores the complicated racial tensions and the changing social and political landscape that led up to the explosion on Los Angeles's streets in the summer of 1943. The film describes changes in the city's population — the influx of new immigrants, the booming war-time economy, the huge number of service men on their way to the Pacific theater and a new generation of Mexican Americans who were more conspicuous, more affluent and more self-confident than their parents had ever dared to be.