The education of Alice McGrath : oral history transcript / by Michael Balter, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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Balter, Michael.

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Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

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The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (first known as the Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth) was organized in Oct. 1942 in response to indictment of 22 young men for murder; all defendants but one were Mexican-American; 12 defendants were convicted of first degree murder by Superior Court of LA County; Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee raised funds for the appeal of the case and roused public opinion through education and publicity programs; judgments and decisions of the...

Tegner, Bruce

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McGrath, Alice, 1917-2009

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Alice Greenfield was born in 1917; the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, she grew up in Los Angeles, CA; went to work as the executive secretary for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, 1942-44; married briefly to poet Thomas McGrath and later married martial arts instructor and author Bruce Tegner; wrote books on and taught self-defense for women for twenty-five years; worked with Luis Valdez on his play, Zoot suit, which was based on the Sleepy Lagoon case; coordinated groups of Americans...

McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980

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Carey McWilliams was born December 13, 1905 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He completed his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1927. From 1927-1938, McWilliams was an attorney at the law firm Black, Hammack in Los Angeles. In 1938, he was appointed as Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing of the State of California, a position he kept until 1942. During the period from 1945-1955, he began his long association with The Nation, becoming successively contribut...

Schechter, Max.

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Communist Party of the United States of America (Calif.)

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Leyvas, Henry.

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Margolis, Benjamin.

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Benjamin Margolis, 1910-. Lawyer. From the description of Law and social conscience : oral history transcript / Ben Margolis. Interviewed by Michael S. Balter ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 37971632 ...

McGrath, Thomas, 1916-1990

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Thomas McGrath was born in 1916 near Sheldon, North Dakota. He first attended Moorhead State University and in 1939 earned a B.A. at the University of North Dakota. He studied at Louisiana State with Cleanth Brooks, was involved in radical political activity, wrote, and published his first book of poems. In the 1940-1941 academic year McGrath taught at Colby College in Maine then went to New York city where he wrote, did legal research for attorneys engaged in "political" cases, and worked at th...

Valdez, Luis Miguel, 1940-....

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