Alice Greenfield McGrath Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Alice Greenfield McGrath (April 5, 1917 – November 27, 2009), also known as Alice Greenfield, was an American activist who first gained fame in connection with the 1942 case of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder. She was the executive secretary of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee from 1942–1944. She later married blacklisted poet Thomas McGrath, organized a pro bono legal service organization in Ventura County, California, and led 86 missions to Nicaragua in the 1980s and 1990s.
Activist who backed the defendants in the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon trial.
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Lobbied to win the freedom of a group of Mexican-American men convicted of killing a Mexican farmworker in 1942. In 1944, an appeals court overturned the convictions, finding no evidence that tied any of the men to the murder. The incident was the basis for the play "Zoot Suit".
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Was a prominent political activist who fought for many minorities in the United States.