Menu
LAMOG
  • Main Page
  • About Us
    • Our Mission Statement
    • Alameda Division
    • Burbank Division
    • Crenshaw Division
    • Contact Us
  • Kids Club
  • Supply Chain Journeys
    • Introduction to the Supply Chain Journeys
    • Supply Chain Journeys Podcast
  • Port of Los Angeles
    • Supply Chain Crisis
    • Natural History
    • Ti'ats And Natives People
    • The Cabrillo Expedition
    • The Rancho Era
    • The Battle of the Old Woman's Gun
    • Phineas Banning
    • The Free Harbor Fight
    • Working at a fish harbor
    • The San Pedro Strike Of 1923
    • Life on Terminal Island
    • Upton Sinclair on Liberty Hill
    • Terminal Island and Japanese Interment
    • Globalization
    • Life on a Container Ship
    • Automation
  • Museum Store
  • Director and Board
  • More...
    • Old Exhibits
      • LA Playlist
      • Zoot Suit Riots
        • Introduction
        • Native and Spanish
        • Mexico and United States
        • Refugees and Barrios
        • Repatriation and Braceros
        • Jazz and Zoot Suits
        • Sleepy Lagoon and Police
        • The Trial and The Press
        • The Riots
        • Aftermath and Blame
        • SLDC and Release
        • Post-War Changes
        • Chicano Movement and Zoot Suit Play
        • Global Connections
        • Timeline & Biographies
        • Conclusion
      • Then and Now
      • The Los Angeles River
      • Memory and Mapping
      • The California Water Wars
      • Neighborhood Time Travel
      • Mulholland: The Musical
      • Fall 2020 Documentary
  • Main Page
  • About Us
    • Our Mission Statement
    • Alameda Division
    • Burbank Division
    • Crenshaw Division
    • Contact Us
  • Kids Club
  • Supply Chain Journeys
    • Introduction to the Supply Chain Journeys
    • Supply Chain Journeys Podcast
  • Port of Los Angeles
    • Supply Chain Crisis
    • Natural History
    • Ti'ats And Natives People
    • The Cabrillo Expedition
    • The Rancho Era
    • The Battle of the Old Woman's Gun
    • Phineas Banning
    • The Free Harbor Fight
    • Working at a fish harbor
    • The San Pedro Strike Of 1923
    • Life on Terminal Island
    • Upton Sinclair on Liberty Hill
    • Terminal Island and Japanese Interment
    • Globalization
    • Life on a Container Ship
    • Automation
  • Museum Store
  • Director and Board
  • More...
    • Old Exhibits
      • LA Playlist
      • Zoot Suit Riots
        • Introduction
        • Native and Spanish
        • Mexico and United States
        • Refugees and Barrios
        • Repatriation and Braceros
        • Jazz and Zoot Suits
        • Sleepy Lagoon and Police
        • The Trial and The Press
        • The Riots
        • Aftermath and Blame
        • SLDC and Release
        • Post-War Changes
        • Chicano Movement and Zoot Suit Play
        • Global Connections
        • Timeline & Biographies
        • Conclusion
      • Then and Now
      • The Los Angeles River
      • Memory and Mapping
      • The California Water Wars
      • Neighborhood Time Travel
      • Mulholland: The Musical
      • Fall 2020 Documentary

Aftermath and Blame

Picture

This is Franklin D. Roosevelt, former U.S. President and husband of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Picture

General Maxwell Murray ordered the punishment of sailors caught rioting.

Picture

Joseph T. McGucken, author of the McGucken Report, established racial descrimination was the cause of the riots.​

On June 8, 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots finally concluded, but the lives of Mexican Americans hadn’t changed for the better. The press advertised the riots, publishing pictures of bleeding Mexican boys after fights. They sensed the riot's racial prejudice was damaging LA's reputation and wrote the apparent racism was exaggerated. Mayor Fletcher Brown claimed the riot’s eruption wasn’t due to racial tension in LA, and juvenile delinquency caused them. Major General Maxwell Murray issued a memorandum warning the military they wouldn’t tolerate rioting. Military officials blamed the police for lawlessness in the riots, so they were charged with negligence. On the other hand, the police said  servicemen were at the center of the rioting. Eventually, the McGucken Report came out, which determined the cause of the riots was racial discrimination. Nonetheless, there were many conflicting views on who could actually be blamed for the riots.
As the news of the Zoot Suit Riots and McGucken Report spread across the country, Los Angeles received a lot of backlash. Eleanor Roosevelt felt the Zoot Suit riots were caused by racism, and she expressed concern about how the states bordering Mexico treated Mexican Americans. She thought the state needed to work on stopping discrimination. However, the LA Times argued the Mexican American’s “juvenile phase” was instead to blame. They proceeded to call Mrs. Roosevelt “ignorant” and a “communist.”  The LA Times stated, “Mrs. Eleanor had reasons of her own and twisted the Zoot Suit Riots into something that it isn’t– a race hatred problem.”  The LA Times brought important race issues out of the spotlight and disregarded the real issue of the riots. Ironically, this debate on racism occurred at a time when Mrs. Roosevelt’s husband had signed an order to imprison Japanese Americans in internment camps. Mrs. Roosevelt’s and the LA Times’ views conflicted, dividing the country yet again.
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.