WW2 TEST #3 WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS { GUARANTEED A+}
Bracero Program - ✔✔United States labor agents recruited thousands
of farm and railroad workers from Mexico. The program stimulated
emigration for Mexico.
Zoot Suit Riots - ✔✔A series of riots in L.A. California during WW2,
soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican youths because of the zoot
suits they wore.
Sleepy Lagoon Murder - ✔✔The "Sleepy Lagoon murder" was the name
that Los Angeles newspapers used to describe the death of José
Gallardo Diaz. Los Angeles Police arrested 17 Mexican-American youths
as suspects. Despite insufficient evidence, the young men were held in
prison, without bail, on charges of murder. The resulting criminal trial is
, now generally viewed as lacking in the fundamental requirements of
due process.
The Longoria Affair - ✔✔- Felix Longoria was a Mexican American
soldier who died during WW2.
- only one funeral home in Three Rivers, Texas and was on Anglo side
-wouldn't allow burial service in their chapel
-turning point in fight for mexican-american civil rights movement
-Dr Hector Garcia reached out to LBJ who was able to get Felix buried at
Arlington National Cemetery
NAACP - ✔✔National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) - ✔✔an organization that sought to
apply non-violent protest as means of fighting segregation
ANSWERS { GUARANTEED A+}
Bracero Program - ✔✔United States labor agents recruited thousands
of farm and railroad workers from Mexico. The program stimulated
emigration for Mexico.
Zoot Suit Riots - ✔✔A series of riots in L.A. California during WW2,
soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican youths because of the zoot
suits they wore.
Sleepy Lagoon Murder - ✔✔The "Sleepy Lagoon murder" was the name
that Los Angeles newspapers used to describe the death of José
Gallardo Diaz. Los Angeles Police arrested 17 Mexican-American youths
as suspects. Despite insufficient evidence, the young men were held in
prison, without bail, on charges of murder. The resulting criminal trial is
, now generally viewed as lacking in the fundamental requirements of
due process.
The Longoria Affair - ✔✔- Felix Longoria was a Mexican American
soldier who died during WW2.
- only one funeral home in Three Rivers, Texas and was on Anglo side
-wouldn't allow burial service in their chapel
-turning point in fight for mexican-american civil rights movement
-Dr Hector Garcia reached out to LBJ who was able to get Felix buried at
Arlington National Cemetery
NAACP - ✔✔National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) - ✔✔an organization that sought to
apply non-violent protest as means of fighting segregation
