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Communism -- California.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

Elaine Black Yoneda collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0107
Abstract Consists of the papers of Elaine Black Yoneda and research material gathered by author Vivian McGuckin Raineri in the course of writing the biography, Red Angel: The Life and Times of Elaine Black Yoneda. Collection includes correspondence from Manzanar, duplicates of FBI files, subject files regarding the San Francisco 1934 General Strike and Tom Mooney, a manuscript history of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Auxiliary No. 16, transcripts of oral...
Dates: circa 1900-1991, bulk 1930-1988; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1988