Finding aid to the Loretta Starvus Stack Oral History
Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
Labor Archives and Research Center
2017
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722
larc@sfsu.edu
Title: Loretta Starvus Stack oral history
Date (inclusive): 1986 July 22-November 21
Creator:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Extent:
17 audio cassettes
Collection number: larc.oh.stack
Contributing Institution: Labor Archives and Research Center
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu
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.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English.
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Loretta Starvus Stack oral history. San Francisco State University. Labor Archives and Research Center
Interview conducted by Lucille Kendall in 1986.
Smith Act Defendant and Communist Party member.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Communism -- California.
Communism -- United States.
Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1952-1953.
Communists -- United States -- Interviews.
Communist trials -- New York (State)
Audiocassettes.
Oral histories.
Stack, Loretta Starvus
Kendall, Lucy
Communist Party of the United States of America