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Stack, Loretta Starvus

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Loretta Starvus Stack oral history

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-005
Scope and Contents

Interviews with Loretta Starvus Stack, conducted by Lucy Kendall in 1986 and 1987.

Dates: 1986-1987

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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Subject
Communism -- California. 2
Communism -- United States. 2
Audiocassettes. 1
Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1952-1953. 1
Communist trials -- California. 1