Stack v. Boyle
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Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1, was a United States Supreme Court case involving the arrest of members of the Communist Party who were charged with conspiring to violate the Smith Act. The case regards th
An article published in the San Francisco Chronicle profiling the 12 West Coast Communists arrested under the Smith Act, July 27, 1951
A typical anti-communist poster of the McCarthy era
Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
Al Richmond
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Al Richmond was an American writer who co-founded and served as executive editor for the People's World San Francisco.
Stack v. Boyle
…Supreme Court ruling she left the Communist Party. In her later years she fought to improve bus service and organized a cooperative housing project. Al Richmond helped found The Daily People's World which was a leftist newspaper in San Francisco, and he served as its executive editor. Later, Richmond said of…
Richmond c. 1951
The cover of Richmond's Native Daughter: The Story of Anita Whitney (1942)
Richmond (center) at a dinner in his honor in Berkeley, California, March 7, 1970