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Title: Loretta Starvus Stack oral history
Creator: Labor Archives and Research Center
Kendall, Lucille
Stack, Loretta Starvus, 1913-2000
Date Created and/or Issued: [1986-07-29,1986-08-26,1986-09-02,1986-09-09,1986-10-07,1986-10-14,1986-10-21,1986-10-31,1986-11-21,1986-11-26,1986-12-05,1986-12-19,1987-01-20]
Contributing Institution: San Francisco State University, Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection: California Revealed from Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University
Rights Information: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Labor Archives and Research Center (LARC), J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Description: Smith Act Defendant and Communist Party member 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.
Type: sound
Format: Master
Audio cassette
Form/Genre: Oral histories
Extent: 17 Tapes of 17
Identifier: Oral History Collection
csfst_000037_t1; csfst_000037_t2; csfst_000037_t3; csfst_000037_t4; csfst_000037_t5; csfst_000037_t6; csfst_000037_t7; csfst_000037_t8; csfst_000037_t9; csfst_000037_t10; csfst_000037_t11; csfst_000037_t12; csfst_000037_t13; csfst_000037_t14; csfst_000037
Language: English
Subject: Communism--California
Communism--United States
Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1952-1953
Communist trials--New York (State)
Communists--United States--Interviews
Communist Party of the United States of America
Place: New York (N.Y.)
Willimantic (Conn.)
Provenance: Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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