Author/Name: McGrath, Alice Greenfield, 1917- interviewee.

Title:  The education of Alice McGrath oral history transcript / Alice McGrath ; interviewed by Michael Balter, [1987].

Published/distributed: [Los Angeles] : Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, c1987.

Physical description: xiii, 487 leaves, bound : port. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Transcript of a 16.5-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program.

An untranscribed tape of an interview of McGrath, conducted by James V. Mink and Gerald Nash on June 19, 1981, in which she elaborates on the Sleepy Lagoon case, is also available in the UCLA Library Special Collections by special arrangement.

Anti-discrimination activist and teacher of self-defense and assault prevention.

Forms part of: Oral History collection, Library Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Access to portions of interview restricted without written permission of interviewee.

No quotation, publication or reproduction without written permission of interviewee.

Portions of audiotape recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Library Special Collections. Access to remainder restricted without written permission of interviewee.

McGrath recalls her early years, her political affiliations, her work on the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, and her career as a martial arts teacher and writer.

Volume includes index.

Related papers in the UCLA Library Special Collections.

Photocopy: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Subject(s):      McGrath, Alice Greenfield, 1917- interviewee.

                          McWilliams, Carey, 1905-

                          Valdez, Luis.

                          Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee.

                          Communist Party of the United States of America.

                          Civil rights--United States.

                          Mexican American youth--California--Los Angeles.

                          Self-defense for women.

Genre/form:  oral histories.

Other entries:  Balter, Michael, interviewer.

  University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program.

Record ID:       2221406

Collection:      UCLA Libraries and Collections

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Location:       YRL Special Collections Stacks

Call Number: 300/ 269