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Oral histories.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Robert W. Cherny research files

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0433xx
Abstract Robert W. Cherny is a U.S. historian, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, and a co-founder of the Labor Archives and Research Center, also at San Francisco State University. His research files contain materials gathered by Cherny in the course of his research for biographies of the Russian-American painter Victor Arnautoff and the Australian-born U.S. labor leader and longtime head of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) Harry Bridges,...
Dates: 1872 - 2022

Loretta Starvus Stack oral history

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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