An American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and won the Gold Medal at London's World's Fair in the Crystal Palace.
The Los Angeles police used the murder of the 22-year-old farmworker to launch a widespread attack on what they perceived as an unruly and rapidly multiplying Mexican American youth "element."
Lorena and several other young women had been placed in the Los Angeles County Jail on suspicion of wrongdoing immediately following the murder of Jose Diaz.
While Alice grew up in mostly segregated, white neighborhoods, she had a keen regard for the underdog and felt deeply about the indignities and injustices the minority groups of the city suffered.
