The Sleepy Lagoon Case

by The Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American

$750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Los Angeles: The Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth, 1942. First edition, first printing. ii , 24, 25-30 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Fine, bright with hardly any wear. Quite rare in its first of two printings. An important predecessor to the Zoot Suit Riots of the following year, the Sleepy Lagoon case involved the railroading of 17 Mexican-American young men in the death of Jose

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