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SLEEPY LAGOON EVENT PROGRAM The Sleepy Lagoon Case, Constitutional Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy
Friday, May 20, 2005 Venue: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library, Haines Hall 144
2:00 – 4:00pm Panel: Zoot Suit Culture of the 1940s
Welcome and Introduction: Carlos M. Haro, CSRC Assistant Director 1) Luis Alvarez, University of Houston . The Power of the Zoot: Identity and Resistance in U.S. Youth Culture during World War II . 2) Catherine Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz . The Lady Zoot Suiter: The Pachuca and the Rearticulation of Race, Class, Gender, and the Nation.
5:30 – 8:45pm Screening and Discussion of the film Zoot Suit Venue: Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium (Fowler A103B)
Program Description: The Sleepy Lagoon case was largely forgotten for nearly thirty years until Luis Valdez produced Zoot Suit in the late 1970s. The play and the subsequent film have generated much praise and criticism since they first appeared. Upon showing the film, Kinan Valdez, son of Luis Valdez and currently directing the play, Zoot Suit, will be joined by Alice Greenfield McGrath, will discussion the play and film with audience members.
5:30-6:15 PM Reception 6:00-6:15 PM Welcome and Introduction by Gary E. Strong, University Librarian, and Carlos M. Haro, Assistant Director, Chicano Studies Research Center.
6:15-8:00 PM Film Screening 8:00-8:45 PM Dialogue with Kinan Valdez and Alice Greenfield McGrath
Saturday, May 21, 2005 Venue: Fowler Museum , Lenart Auditorium
9:00 AM Refreshments 9:20-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions CSRC Assistant Director Carlos M. Haro UCLA Librarian Gary Strong
9:30 AM The Goals of the Conference Alice Greenfield McGrath
9:40-10:50 AM Panel #1: The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Historical, Legal, and Community Perspectives Panel Description: Panelists will detail the case, People v. Zammora, the importance of the case to legal history, the social environment leading up to the trial as well as address factors and personalities involved in the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and the legal defense. Key questions to be considered by this panel will be:
Moderator: Douglas Monroy, Occidental College and the Huntington Library
1) Frank Barajas, CSU Channel Islands 2) Edward J. Escobar, Arizona State University
10:50-11:00 AM—Break
11:00-12:30 AM Panel #2: The Reality Remembered
Panel Description: Several of the key people who supported the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, SLDC, will be acknowledged and honored—among them, LaRue McCormick, Carey McWilliams, Josefina Fierro, George Shibley, Ben Margolis, and Lupe Leyvas. Anecdotes about the appellants in San Quentin, the world-wide attention that the case received, and the day-to-day work of the SLDC will be recalled from personal experience and from the large collection at the UCLA Research Library
Moderator: Carlos Manuel Haro, UCLA
1) Alice McGrath, Social Justice Activist, Executive Secretary of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee 2) Peter Richardson , California Budget Project 3) Jaime Gonzalez Monroy, Union Organizer, Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Member
12:30-1:30 PM—Lunch
1:30-3:10 PM Panel #3: Constitutional Rights, Racism, and War: Contemporary Perspectives
Panel Description: Speakers will focus on the striking similarities between racial profiling and the curtailment of constitutional rights during World War II and today’s “war on terrorism.” Key topics covered here will include—multi-racial organizing in the 1940s and 2000s, racial discrimination targeting Middle Eastern, Muslim and other immigrants in the United States, the USA Patriot Act and constitutional rights, legal and political activism, and links between the “war on terrorism” and the “war on gangs” or the treatment of immigrants.
Moderator: Sonia M. Mercado, Law Offices of Sonia Mercado & Associates
1) Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, University of California , Santa Barbara 2) Tomas A. Saenz, Vice President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund 3) Steven Arvizu, Retired College President, Citizen Activist
3:10-3:20PM--Break
3:20-5:00 PM Panel #4: Roundtable Discussion: The Sleepy Lagoon Case—Dialogues and Debates in Chicana/o Studies
Panel Description: This panel will address a range of questions associated with not only the Sleepy Lagoon case but also scholarly debates relating to past and recent writings and the incorporation of the Sleepy Lagoon case and the Zoot Suit era in Chicana/o studies. At the start of this discussion, each participant will speak for ten minutes before an exchange of views among them and the fielding of questions from the audience.
Moderator: Mary Pardo, CSU Northridge
1) Deena Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University 2) Juan Gomez-Quinones, UCLA 3) Catherine Ramirez, University of California , Santa Cruz 4) Luis Alvarez, University of Houston
5:00-5:30 PM Special Collections, Holdings and Visual Displays
Review Special collections and other resources available at UCLA on the Sleepy Lagoon case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, Zoot Suiters and Pachucos.
Genie Guerard, UCLA Young Research Library Manuscript Librarian Yolanda Retter-Vargas, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Librarian
5:30-5:45 PM Closing Remarks Victoria Steele, Head, Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections 5:45-7:00 PM Reception and Final Conversations All panelists and conferees invited Venue: Fowler Museum
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