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During World War II, more than 300,000 Mexican Americans served in the US armed forces.<ref name="autogenerated8" /> Mexican Americans were generally integrated into regular military units; however, many Mexican–American War veterans were discriminated against and even denied medical services by the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]] when they arrived home.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> In 1948, war veteran [[Hector P. Garcia]] founded the [[American GI Forum]] to address the concerns of Mexican American veterans who were being discriminated against. The AGIF's first campaign was on the behalf of [[Felix Longoria]], a Mexican American private who was killed in the Philippines while in the line of duty. Upon the return of his body to his hometown of [[Three Rivers, Texas]], he was denied funeral services because of his nationality.
The [[Zoot Suit Riots]] took place from June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles involving white American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/zoot-suit-riots|title=Zoot Suits Riots|website=History.comdate=December 14, 2023 |date=9 August 2023 }}</ref> It was one of the dozen wartime industrial cities that suffered race-related riots in the summer of 1943. White servicemen and white [[Angelenos]] attacked and stripped children, teenagers, and youths who wore [[zoot suit]]s. While most of the violence was directed toward Mexican American youth, and [[African Americans|African
9780812223033 | quote=Over the next few days, crowds of white civilians joined in the rampage, targeting mainly Mexican American youths but also some African Americans and Filipinos.}}</ref> The defiance of zoot suiters became inspirational for [[Chicano]]s during the [[Chicano Movement]] that worked to embrace a Chicano identity and worldview that combated structural [[Racism in the United States|racism]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sandoval|first=Denise M.|title=Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|location=Berkeley, California|year=2013|isbn=9780520956872|editor-last=Kun|editor-first=Josh|pages=197|chapter=The Politics of Low and Slow/Bajito y Suavecito: Black and Chicano Lowriders in Los Angeles, from the 1960s through the 1970s|editor-last2=Pulido|editor-first2=Laura}}</ref>
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