Title:
Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal
Date:
October 1944
Subject:
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, 1942-1943
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee
United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)
Note:
Family members of defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case await a verdict from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the
Los Angeles Hall of Justice
After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon
Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage
of justice
Type:
news photographs
Physical Description:
1 photograph : b&w negative ; 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier:
uclamss_1387_b72_32252
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