Owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Walter O'mally is unhappy with his team in Brooklyn because their rivals the Yankees kept winning the World Series. Coincidentally, there was a huge empty space from the former Chavez Ravine, that is now Dodger Statium
The Federal Housing project was called off because it was called communist by many people. People said that the Housing project was too socialist for them, so the project was stopped midway.
In 1951, Chavez Ravine starts demolition, with families being forced out in order to make room for the federal housing project called Elysian Park Heights.
In what is now Dodger Statium, Chavez Ravine used to stand. A town made up of mostly Mexican Americans was suddenly told that they must move. The American Government used their power of eminent domain to take the property and forcibly remove all of the residents from their homes.
During the time of the Zoot Suit riots, the entire media was on the side of the Navy Seals. All news articles were calling Zoot Suiters the problems. Eleanor Roosevelt realized how unfair it was and wrote a letter to the LA Times explaining how there were two sides to the fighting. The Los Angeles Times then went on to criticize Mrs. Roosevelt.
In one of the many fights between the soldiers and the blacks and latinos of Los Angeles, a latino man was killed. Also, the Navy Seals hunt down the Zoot Suiters and beat them for no reason.
In 1942, President Roosevelt created Executive Order 9066, which forced Japanese Americans out of their homes. All American citizens from Japanese descent were rounded up and sent to internment camps.
When a dead person was found at popular teen hangout the Sleepy Lagoon, 21 Japanese men were accused of this murder. 12 of those teenagers were sent to jail on the account of one man's murder.
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