1. New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow
Aired: Sep 10, 2001Reveals the immense new forces that were unleashed in New York.
American Experience
Season 14 Episode 8: Public Enemy Number 1
"Zoot Suit Riots" recalls a week of violence that rocked Los Angeles in June 1943, pitting Mexican-Americans against Anglos, many of them servicemen. Hector Elizondo narrates the hour, which uses atmospheric re-creations and interviews with historians and people who lived through it to chart a year of steadily rising tension leading up to the riots. One key event: an August 1942 altercation in which a young Mexican-American man died. The defendants were also Mexican-American, but th...
