For artist and CSUN Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies Sandra de la Loza, this memorial is personal. Her parents were pachucos/as. Her uncle was one of the young men rounded up by police during one of the many sweeps of Zoot Suitors and was even featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times in June 1943. Like many Mexican American families, her family didn't discuss the tragedies as a result of the Zoot Suit Riots and most of that history was kept silent until de la Loza began to ask questions when she noticed photos in her family albums.
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