Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grave of Jose Diaz, a 22-year-old man whose murder in 1942 led to the Zoot Suit riots but who has essentially been forgotten ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a ...

The “Sleepy Lagoon” was simply the name given to a water reservoir on the Williams ranch in a rural area of Los Angeles County. The reservoir was used primarily to irrigate crops, but for many young ...

PASADENA – Henry Ynostroza, who was among a group of 12 men wrongly convicted in the racially tinged Sleepy Lagoon murder case, has died. He was 82. Ynostroza died of natural causes Tuesday at a ...

Alice McGrath, a lifelong activist who first gained fame as a champion of the wrongly convicted young Mexican Americans in the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon trial, has died. She was 92. McGrath died Friday at ...

Henry Leyvas and the kids from 38th Street in Los Angeles were no angels. No way ese. They raced cars, drank beer, and picked fights. The night 22-year-old Jose Diaz died, Leyvas probably helped start ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a precursor to the following year’s Zoot Suit riots — was touching. I teach ...

The grave of Jose Diaz, a 22-year-old man whose murder in 1942 led to the Zoot Suit riots but who has essentially been forgotten today, at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / Los ...

Henry Leyvas and the kids from 38th Street in Los Angeles were no angels. No way ese. They raced cars, drank beer, and picked fights. The night 22-year-old Jose Diaz died, Leyvas probably helped start ...