Mexican Americans & WW2
Across
- 5. a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat
- 6. a person who works on or controls a boat or ship as part of the crew.
- 9. term for a Mexican American "punk"
- 10. A Mexican American organization that began by highlighting Mexican American patriotism and achievement in WW2 and then evolved into a civil rights organization.
Down
- 1. permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.
- 2. A 1949 court case that argued that an Arizona school district was segregating Mexican schools.
- 3. Mexican American Army veteran and WW2 war hero who was involved in assault and battery case after he was refused coffee at a Virginia restaurant.
- 4. a series of conflicts that occurred between white U.S. servicemen and young Mexican Americans in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California.
- 7. Mexican American women who wore zoot suits during World War II
- 8. second most populated city in the United States