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XI. Racial Conflicts<br />

• Competition (jobs/housing) increase<br />

tension<br />

• Mobs of whites attack African Americans<br />

• 250 race riots (1943); worse one in<br />

Detroit<br />

• Mexicans suffer LA zoot suit riots (1943)<br />

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