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Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind
2013
Overview
Some 275 young people converged at Chicago’s Ashland Auditorium on Saturday evening, November 20, 1943, to attend the Reminiscent Dance of Relocation Days. The soiree was billed as the area’s first large-scale public event exclusively catering to second-generation Japanese Americans. All were recent arrivals to the Midwest, having left the WRA’s internment camps as participants in the federal government’s resettlement program, and eager to reunite with old friends and forge new acquaintanceships. A palpable tension marred the highly anticipated affair, however, as Nisei zoot-suiters, commonly referred to as “pachuke” and “yogore,” appeared in droves. Noticing the “sneers on the faces
