Biography
Yetta Stromberg, a nineteen-year-old member of the Young Communist League, was a supervisor at a communist children's summer camp at Yucaipa, California, where she led a daily ceremony raising a red flag. Convicted in 1929 under California's red-flag law and sentenced to one to ten years at San Quentin, she appealed, and in Stromberg v. California (1931) the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the law's ban on displaying a flag as a symbol of "opposition to organized government" — a landmark First Amendment decision and one of the first to apply free-speech protection against the states.
Case
San Quentin State Prison
