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California surveillance collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0124
Abstract The California Surveillance Collection consists primarily of undercover agent reports and other materials documenting the activities of labor organizations and organizations on the left, 1934-1940, including the Communist Party of San Francisco, and labor leader Harry Bridges. The materials were possibly gathered or created by Harper Knowles during his tenure as director of the Subversive Activities Committee of the American Legion in San Francisco, and Stanley M. Doyle, an associate of...
Dates: 1929 - 1940

People's World Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0009
Abstract The People's World Photograph Collection consists of approximately 6,000 photographs used in People's World, a grassroots publication affiliated with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The photographs, along with a small selection of cartoons and artwork, highlight social and political issues and events of the 20th century, with the views of the newspaper aligning with the CPUSA's policies on topics such as civil rights, labor, immigration, the peace movement,...
Dates: 1856-1992; Majority of material found within 1930-1990

People's World Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0399
Scope and Content of Collection Consists of the research files of the newspaper People's World, organized by subjects and individual's names and primarily consists of newspaper clippings and ephemera. Some folders do contain primary source materials including speeches, notes, and interviews. Issues addressed include social and political events of local, national and world-wide scope, such as the Communist Party in the U.S., especially California; labor union activities; the Independent Progressive...
Dates: 1929-1996

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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