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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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Robert W. Cherny research files
Collection
Identifier: larc.ms.0433
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Radical Elders Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0423
Abstract
The Radical Elders Oral History Project Records consist of audio recordings in cassette and reel-to-reel format, transcripts and project files documenting early twentieth century activists in the Communist Party as well as labor and other social justice movements. Interviewees include Sam Krieger, Emmy Lou Packard, Eluard Luchell McDaniel, Irving Fromer, Nori Ikeda Lafferty, Alice Quaytman, Carl Sullivan, Jack Wagner, Malvina Reynolds, William (Billy) Allan, Elaine Johnson, Frank Rowe,...
Dates:
1947-1995; Majority of material found in 1978-1987
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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- Arnautoff, Victor Michail, 1896-1979 2
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