The name of a 1942 Billboard number one song was hijacked by the media and used for the murder of which person that eventually lead to riots in the USA?

honeybee4

Sleepy Lagoon. http://www.sleepylagoon.com/H/sltrial.htm May 22 11, 10:39 AM

Shiningstar7

Jose' Diaz In the summer of 1942 the Sleepy Lagoon case made national news when teenage members of the 38th Street Gang were accused of murdering a man named Jose Diaz in an abandoned quarry pit. This case created much anti-Mexican sentiment and the nine men were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. As one author puts it, â€oeMany Angelenos saw the death of José Díaz as a tragedy that resulted from a larger pattern of lawlessness and rebellion among Mexican American youths, discerned through their self-conscious fashioning of difference, and increasingly called for stronger measures to crack down on juvenile delinquency[citation needed].â€? Although ultimately the convictions of the nine young men were overturned, the case caused much animosity toward Mexican Americans. Much of this animosity had to do with the police and press characterizing all Mexican youth as "pachuco hoodlums and baby gangsters." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots May 22 11, 10:07 PM