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what was the significance of the sleepy lagoon trial
The Sleepy Lagoon case was one of the major civil rights cases of the 1940s and exacerbated ethnic tensions which culminated in Los Angeles' Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.
who was charged in the Sleepy Lagoon trial
Seventeen Latino youths were indicted on the murder charges and placed on trial.

Question: who was the murder victim
Self-contained rewrite: who was the murder victim in the Sleepy Lagoon trial