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211. Interview of Alice McGrath (1981)

Topic:
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Activist. Executive secretary for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and volunteer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

212. Interview of Fred Okrand

Topic:
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Length:
19 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

213. Interview of Henry W. Fiering

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Length:
12.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Union organizer for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, and Federation of Retired Union Members (FORUM).

214. Interview of Eason Monroe

Topic:
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Length:
12 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Chair of San Francisco State College’s Department of Education.

215. Interview of Albert Maltz

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
36 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
Biographical Note:
Novelist and screenwriter. One of the Hollywood Ten, who were imprisoned and blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.

216. Interview of William Seligman

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Length:
9.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Labor leader and arbitrator. Organizer for the Cap and Millinery Workers International Union and the United Shoe Workers of America.

217. Interview of John Allard

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Union organizer and president of United Automobile Works (UAW) Local 230.

218. Interview of Sam Rosenwein

Topic:
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lawyer, educator, and executive secretary of the National Lawyers Guild.

219. Interview of Wyndham Mortimer

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Vice-president of the United Automobile Workers union and member of the Communist Party.

220. Interview of Alice McGrath (1984-85)

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Sleepy Lagoon Case
Civil Liberties
Length:
16.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Activist. Executive secretary for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and volunteer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).