During the United State’s entry into World War II, agricultural and industrial efforts to meet agricultural and labor demands encouraged minorities from across the country and Bracero Program farm laborers to move across state and national borders to the centers of production. The increase in cultural and racial diversity entailed tensions between the dominant groups enforcing segregation and discrimination through Jim Crow laws and the minoritized groups who suffered under them. In June of 1943, Los Angeles became a racial powder keg, as a major shipping and Navy port, when white sailors who were unfamiliar with the Chicano and Mexican American communities came to the area to serve WWII efforts. The zoot suit, as a symbol of ethnic pride and protest against social conventions for Mexican-American and Chicano/a/x youth, became the object patriotic and racial violence by the U.S. military and local police. This unit explores understanding how minorities and youth use clothing as expressions of solidarity and pride among themselves, but also as a resistance to participating in the dominant social and cultural.