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By the 1960s, playwright Luis Valdez had established himself and El Teatro Campesino as one of the strongest artistic voices for Mexican-American people throughout the United States. He had already composed several plays and El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers� Theatre) won an Obie Award by the time he wrote Zoot Suit, a play inspired by the racial tensions of 1940s Los Angeles.

Zoot Suit chronicles two distinct, but intertwined, events. The first is the Sleepy Lagoon Murders. In August of 1942, a young Mexican-American man named José Díaz was found stabbed and beaten at the Sleepy Lagoon