Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1952-1953.
Subject
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Loretta Starvus Stack oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-stack
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Loretta Starvus Stack conducted by Lucille Kendall. Discusses working-class childhood in Willimantic, Connecticut; her time with the party; and imprisonment as one of Smith Act defendants in 1951. Discusses the conditions of being jailed with the other female defendants, the strategy of their legal defense, and her feelings of the Communist Party USA's New York leadership going "underground" after the Smith Act arrests.
Dates:
1986 July 22-November 21