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Communist Party of the United States of America

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Found in 4 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

William Schneiderman papers

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0026
Abstract

Primarily material related to Schneiderman's role as California State Secretary of the Communist Party, including correspondence, leaflets, clippings, pamphlets, memoranda, reports, hearing transcripts and manuscript for his autobiography, Dissent on Trial , including one chapter not published.

Dates: 1920-1985

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

Loretta Starvus Stack papers

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0249
Abstract

The Loretta Starvus Stack collection consists of letters, cards and drawings sent by Smith Act defendant, Loretta Stack, to her husband, Walter Stack, and children, as well as those she received from family and friends while she was detained in the Los Angeles County Jail from August to December of 1951, and during her trial in Los Angeles in 1952 (Yates, et. al v. United States Government).

Dates: 1951-1952

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Communism -- California. 3
Communism -- United States. 3
Communists -- United States. 3
Communist trials -- United States. 2
Oral histories. 2