Joseph Starobin speaking in Springfield, Mass.
Title
Joseph Starobin speaking in Springfield, Mass.
Creator
Lipshires, Sidney
Date
ca.1950
Extent
1 photograph
Description
As the repression of the McCarthy era intensified, a handful of Americans held out in resistance. This 1950 image of Joseph Starobin, foreign editor of the Daily Worker, spoke from a makeshift platform in Springfield, using a microphone powered by a car battery. Starobin went into exile in 1951. In the audience was Sid Liphsires, a war veteran and then Secretary of the Communist Party of western Massachusetts. Like Starobin,, Lipshires was forced to relocate to escape political pressure, eventually breaking with the Party in 1957 over its failure to renounce Stalinism.
Collection:
Sidney Lipshires Papers (MS 730)
Identifier
mums730-s03-i004
Cite As:
Joseph Starobin speaking in Springfield, Mass. Unidentified photographer, ca.1950. Sidney Lipshires Papers (MS 730)