Papers, 1943-1990.

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Papers, 1943-1990.

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Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, publications, and printed material related to the activities and interests of Alice Greenfield McGrath, including Mexican-American causes in Los Angeles. Includes material related to McGrath's involvement with production of Luis Valdez's play, Zoot suit, as well as her role with the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee. Correspondents include Carey McWilliams, editor of The nation. Also contains material related to Central America, most of which focuses on social and political conditions in Nicaragua in the late 1980s and 1990.

5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)3 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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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...

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Valdez, Luis Miguel, 1940-....

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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...