Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives

Finding aids:

http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/WAS

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/412.htm

http://web.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/412.htm

http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCm

d=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=WAS

[0198] Robert T. Ashmore Papers, 1914-2002

Location: South Carolina Political Collections, Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina Libraries, 1322 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208

Description: Robert T. Ashmore (1904-1989) represented South Carolina's 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to January 1969. Contains files on Civil Rights and Communism. Documents include constituent letters concerning Ashmore's claim that Communism was infiltrating the American way of life and Ashmore's attack on Protestant ministers and educators, 1958; a variety of anti-Communist propaganda distributed within the United States in the 1950s; and a 1951 House Report on the spread of Communism in the American way of life.

Websites with information:

http://library.sc.edu/p/Collections/SCPC/Collections

http://library.sc.edu/blogs/scpc/2012/03/01/scpc-research-guide-the-cold-war-part-2/

Finding aids:

http://library.sc.edu/scpc/ashmore.html

http://library.sc.edu/scpc/Ashmore.pdf

[0198a] Asian People's Anti-Communist League

Location: Wilson Center Digital Archive, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027 [digital collection]

Description: The Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League included South Korea, the Philippines, South Vietnam, and a number of other Asian countries and territories. The collection contains 58 documents on several of the early conferences convened by the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam and attended by delegations from across Asia.

Finding aid:

http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/193/asian-peoples-anti-communist-league

[0199] Asiatic Exclusion League records, 1906-1910, larc.ms.0145

Location: Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460, San Francisco State University, 1630 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132-1722

Description: The Asiatic Exclusion League was founded in 1905 in San Francisco, California, as the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League. In 1908 the organization changed its name to the Asiatic Exclusion League. The bulk of the Asiatic Exclusion League records consist of the minutes and proceedings of monthly meetings and the first convention of the League, spanning the years 1906-1910; the collection also contains the proceedings of the first two conventions of the Anti-Japanese Laundry League founded in 1908; the transcript of a debate at St. Ignatius College; a pamphlet by Samuel Gompers on Asian workers entitled "Meat vs. Rice"; and a detailed index to its contents. In addition to these items, photocopies of selected articles on Asian exclusion from the Labor Clarion between 1904-1915 were added to the collection in 2006.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89k4c1p/entire_text/

[0200] Association for the Liberation of Ukraine (ALU) Records, 1966-1989, IHRC #250

Location: Ukrainian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Description: The Association for the Liberation of Ukraine (Soiuz Vyzvolennia Ukrainy) was founded in Germany in 1952. Since 1959, its headquarters have been in New York City, with branches in other countries. The Association is a political organization which maintains a conservative-right view and publishes occasionally the journal Misiia Ukrainy (Mission of Ukraine). Records of the Association for the Liberation of Ukraine (ALU) consist of materials pertaining to the organization's activities in the United States.

Finding aid:

http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/am/ihrc250.html

[0201] Association for Voluntary Sterilization Records, 1929-1981 (bulk 1945-1977), SW 15

Location: Social Welfare History Archives, 320 Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, 222 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Description: The Association for Voluntary Sterilization (AVS) promoted the benefits of voluntary sterilization as a means of family planning and population control. Its predecessor, The Sterilization League of New Jersey, was formed in 1937 to promote the eugenic sterilization of the physically and developmentally disabled and persons with mental illness. Various name changes reflected the association's growing emphasis on voluntary sterilization as a means of birth control and ongoing efforts to disassociate itself from eugenic sterilization. Includes records of predecessor organizations that promoted eugenic sterilization. Contains primarily: minutes, correspondence, clippings, financial records, reports, and statistics showing sterilizations by state. Topics include: eugenic sterilization of mentally ill and developmentally disabled persons; medical, legal, and socio-economic aspects of sterilization; efforts to educate doctors, social workers, and the public about sterilization; referrals and financial assistance for individuals seeking sterilization; lawsuits against hospitals that denied sterilization procedures; regional and international voluntary sterilization programs in Appalachia and developing countries; public responses for and against sterilization; and the administration of AVS and its predecessors. Series 1.1 AVS Predecessors, 1929-1969, contains minutes and papers of the five predecessors of AVS: Sterilization League of New Jersey, Sterilization League for Human Betterment, Birthright, Human Betterment Association of America, and Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization. Subseries Sterilization League of New Jersey contains a model sterilization bill presented to the New Jersey legislature and material pertaining to Roman Catholic opposition to sterilization. Correspondents include the American Birth Control League and H. L. Mencken. Subseries Birthright includes material re the proposal of W. P. Draper to sterilize 100,000 in the South to prevent the advance of miscegeny and on the impact of the Nazi sterilization program on activities in the U.S. Among the correspondents are Sheldon Reed, director of the University of Minnesota Dight Institute, and C. M. Goethe. Series 4.3 General Correspondence, 1950-1974, contains files on Hon. James L. Buckley, Senator Everett Dirksen, Wickliffe Draper, Euthanasia Educational Fund, Inc., Euthanasia Society of America, Heredity, Human Betterment Federation, Human Betterment Foundation, Immigration, H. L. Mencken, Frederick Osborn, and the Scaife Family of Pittsburgh. Series 4.4 International Correspondence, 1951-1973, contains a file on C. M. Goethe. Series 7. Sterilization Statistics, 1935-1969, contains sterilization statistics which were gathered annually or biennially by the Human Betterment Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1928 by Ezra S. Gosney, a Pasadena philanthropist, to "foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family." Series 9.9 Newspaper Clippings 1945-1976, consists of newspaper clippings regarding sterilization-related subjects, including material re sterilization in Nazi Germany. The subseries Newspaper clippings: Syndicated Columnists contains clippings of columns by John Chamberlain and Paul Harvey.

Finding aids:

http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;q1=Association%20for%20­Voluntary

%20Sterilization%20Records;rgn=main;view=text;didno=SW0015

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/sw0015.xml

[0202] Assembly of Captive European Nations, Records, 1953-1972, IHRC #136

Location: Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Description: The Assembly of Captive European Nations (ACEN) was a coalition of representatives from nine nations who found themselves under the yoke of Soviet domination after World War II. Membership in the organization consisted of former government and cultural leaders from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. Founded on September 20, 1954, the ACEN was established to "symbolize in one name both the plight and the aims of the Central and Eastern European nations," which were either unrepresented or misrepresented in the United Nations. Series I. Internal Organization. Subseries 4 - Committee Members, has files on Vilis Masens, George M. Dimitrov, Brutus Coste, and Nuci Kotta. Series II. ACEN Member Organizations, has files on Jozef Lettrich, Aleksander Kutt, and Béla Fábián/Federation of Hungarian Former Political Prisoners. Series IV.- General Committee. Subseries 4 - Speakers Bureau. Speakers on East-Central Europe, contains files on George Dimitrov, Stefan Korbonski, Ferenc Nagy, Štefan Osuský, and Vaclovas Sidzikauskas. Series IX - Relations with Governments. Subseries 6 - United States Senate, has a file on William F. Knowland. Subseries 7 - United States House of Representatives, has files on Committee on Foreign Affairs - Pillion Resolution and Committee on Un-American Activities. Series X. Relations with Non-governmental Organizations and Individuals, Subseries 1. Political Organizations, contains files on All American Conference to Combat Communism, Americans to Free Captive Nations, American Friends of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, American Friends of the Captive Nations, American Legion, American National Committee for the Freedom of Enslaved Nations, American Security Council, Anti-Communist Organizations, Asian People's Anti-Communist League, Citizens' Foreign Relations Committee, Committee for Freedom for All Peoples, Committee of One Million, Council Against Communist Aggression, Crusade Against Communism, Crusade For Freedom, Foreign Policy Association, Information Council of the Americas, and Liberty Amendment Committee of the USA. Subseries 6. Individuals, has files on Alfred Kohlberg, Clarence Manion, and Herbert A. Philbrick.

Finding aids:

http://archives.ihrc.umn.edu/vitrage/all/am/GENassembly.htm

http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/am/GENassembly.htm

http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/am/GENassembly.htm

[0203] Association of Citizens Councils of Mississippi Papers

Location: Archives and Records Services Division, William F. Winter Archives and History Building, The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201

Description: The Association of Citizens Councils of Mississippi was founded in Winona, Mississippi, in 1954 as a statewide body.

References:

Charles C. Bolton, "Mississippi's School Equalization Program, 1945-1954: 'A Last Gasp to Try to Maintain a Segregated Educational System,'" Journal of Southern History, 66(4) (2000), pp. 781-814, http://libres.uncg.edu/

ir/uncg/f/C_Bolton_Mississippi_2000.pdf; Charles C. Bolton, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 (University Press of Mississippi, 2005); David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

[0204] Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi records, 1961-1967 and undated

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708

Description: The first Citizens' Council (also known as the White Citizens' Council) was formed in Indianola, Mississippi, following the United States Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which struck down segregation in public schools. White businessmen, planters, and professionals organized the group to prevent the court's ruling from taking hold in Mississippi. Other Citizens' Council chapters were formed around the state, and within three months a statewide body, the Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, began in Winona, Mississippi. By 1956, the group claimed eighty thousand members in Mississippi. It was particularly active in the Delta region and also had a powerful Jackson chapter, led by William J. Simmons (1916-2007). A national group, the Citizens' Council of America, was formed by 1956. The Citizens' Council received its revenue from membership dues and grants from the publicly-funded Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an agency that promoted segregation and investigated the activities of civil rights groups. The Citizens' Council officially eschewed violence as a strategy, although many Council members privately condoned the violent tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan. The Council was active for more than a decade, but began to lose some of its influence by the late-1960s. Collection comprises Association of Citizen's Councils' position statements, directives, articles, and handbills on the subjects of voting rights, school integration, civil rights protests, infiltration of the Southern Civil Rights movement by Communists, and segregation. Reprinted newspaper articles from newspapers across the country comprise the majority of the material. There are also requests for funding and assistance in influencing politicians. There are handbills with quotations, position statement, cartoons, and editorial photographs. Some of the material is from the national Citizens' Council, and some is printed by Lawrence Printing Company of Greenwood, Miss.

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/880720420

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/880720420

http://www.worldcat.org/title/association-of-citizens-councils-of-mississippi-records-1961-1967-and-undated/oclc/880720420

[0205] James B. Aswell Family Papers, 1892-1959 (bulk 1909-1931), Mss. 1408, 1426, 1468, 1483, 1620, 1621

Location: Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. 70803-3300

Description: James B. Aswell (1869-1931) was a politician and educator from Natchitoches, La. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, speeches, and other related items pertain principally to Aswell's political career and Louisiana politics; World War I; and post-war European conditions. Other topics include the Ku Klux Klan. Notable individuals mentioned include Huey Long and Herbert Hoover.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/research/msg.php?display=single&q=Politics

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/1408.pdf

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/politicalpapers/r1408m.inv.pdf

[0206] Atlanta Jewish Federation Records, 1906-1980, Mss 82

Location: The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309

Description: The Atlanta Jewish Federation was formally incorporated in 1967 and is the result of the merger of the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service founded in 1905 as the Federation of Jewish Charities; the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation founded in 1936 as the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund; and the Atlanta Jewish Community Council founded in 1945. Over the years the Federation operated the majority of the social service functions within the Jewish community of Atlanta. The records consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, administrative files, and scrapbooks. Files on American Nazi Party - George Lincoln Rockwell, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism - propaganda - Israel Cohen, October Bombing - The Temple, Bombings - general, Christian Anti-Jewish Party, Upton Close, Columbians, Communism, Crusade for Freedom, Desegregation - Atlanta Public Schools, Benjamin Franklin and the Pickney Diary, Ku Klux Klan, McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, Mental Health, Nazism, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Right wing movements - John Birch Society, Segregation, States' Rights Council of Georgia, and White Citizens Council.

Finding aids:

http://cubafamilyarchives.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/mss-82-atlanta-jewish-federation-records/

http://www.thebreman.org/research-n-collections/finding-aids/Atlanta-Jewish-Federation.pdf

[0207] Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives, bulk 1950s-1980s [photographs; partly digital collection]

Location: Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, 100 Decatur St., SE, Atlanta, GA 30303-3202

Description: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives consist of approximately six million prints, negatives, and slides from the newspaper's photo morgue. Topics include anti-integration, civil rights, integration, Ku Klux Klan, pro-segregation, and segregation.

Websites with information:

http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/collections

http://dp.la/info/2014/06/25/putting-it-on-the-line-citizen-participation-in-the-democratic-process-georgia-state-universitys-digital-collections/

Finding aids to digital collection:

http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/ajc

http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/search/collection/ajc

http://dp.la/search?provider%5B%5D=Georgia+State+University.+Libraries.+Special+Collections&q="atlanta+journal+constitution"

[0208] Audio Collection, 1954-2008, The Harvard Law School Forum [audio recordings; digital collection]

Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: Harvard Law School Forum is a non-partisan student organization of Harvard Law School dedicated to bringing open discussion of a broad range of legal, political and social issues to the Harvard Law School campus. On March 8, 1946, the Forum presented its first program, a discussion of the war crimes trials. The Audio Collection is a collection of speeches and panel discussions by speakers including Barry Goldwater and others ("The First Hundred Days" – April 30, 1961 [discussing Kennedy's first hundred days]); Billy Graham ("Evangelism and the Intellectual"- April 1, 1962); Allen Dulles ("The Role of Intelligence in Policy Making" – December 13, 1963); Bishop Fulton Sheen ("God and the Intellectual" – February 13, 1966); Phyllis Schlafly ("The ERA – Is There a Future?" – April 25, 1984); Rev. Jerry Falwell ("The Role of Religion in Politics" (introduction by Professor Laurence Tribe) – September 20, 1984; "The Evangelical Vote: Is It Monolithic?" – October 6, 1986); Edwin Meese III ("Freedom, Free Speech and the Courts" – February 10, 1992); and Charlton Heston ("Winning the Cultural War" – February 16, 1999).

Guide to Past Programs:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071215014838/http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/forum/40s.html

Websites with information:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071227033700/http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/forum/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20071227033655/http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/forum/history.html

Finding aid:

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/hlsforum/multimedia/

[0209] Friedrich Ernst Auhagen Collection, 1939-1952, MS110

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, McCormick Library, Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2300

Description: In September 1940 Dr. Auhagen was arrested and called to testify before the Dies Committee in October regarding possible subversive Nazi activities. He was released, but kept under Justice Department surveillance until March 1941, when a federal grand jury issued an indictment against him for failing to register as a German agent. The articles, newspaper clippings, and correspondence in the collection were collected between 1939 and 1952 by Henry Pope, a prominent Republican and Chicago area businessman. Includes files on Dorothy Thompson, including "On the Record" column on Dr. Auhagen, October 23, 1940; Pilot Radio transcript, Dorothy Thompson on Dr. Auhagen, October 20, 1940; and Lawrence Dennis to Dorothy Thompson in published, Weekly Foreign Letter, December 9, 1940; and on American Fellowship Forum, including a copy of Today's Challenge (American Fellowship Forum), v. 1 no. 1, June/July 1939 (contains 3 articles by Auhagen, one under the pseudonym of "Ferdinand Cooper") and the American Fellowship Forum platform and program.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/special-collections/manuscripts-and-archives

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1426

[0210] Warren R. Austin Collection, 1877-1962

Location: Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, 538 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05405-0036

Description: Warren Robinson Austin (1877-1962) served as United States Senator from Vermont, 1931-1946, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1947-1953. The Warren Robinson Austin Papers include correspondence, speeches and writings of Austin, notes and notebooks, legislative bills and drafts, printed and published material, memoranda, newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, slides and assorted memorabilia. Series 3. U. S. Senate Period 1931-1946, contains files on Bretton Woods Proposals: International Monetary Fund, Dumbarton Oaks (United Nations Charter), Equal Rights Amendment: National Woman's Party Publications, President Herbert Hoover: Article on World Depression, 1933, March 11, Alfred Landon, Senator William Langer: Correspondence, Notes and Clippings, 1941-1942 n.d., Lend Lease (H.R. 1776), Money, 1932-1933, Neutrality Act: Willkie and the Republican Position, Wendell Willkie: Speeches and Clippings, 1940-1944, and Yalta Agreement. Series 4. United Nations Period and After 1946-1963, contains files on Bricker Amendment, James F. Byrnes, Committee of One Million (Re: China), Communism and Subversive Activities, Dwight Eisenhower, Foreign Policy Association Publications, Genocide, Alger Hiss, Herbert Hoover, Institute of Pacific Relations, Isaac Don Levine (Plain Talk), Henry Cabot Lodge, Douglas MacArthur, Negro Question, Matthew Ridgway, Carlos Romulo, Robert A. Taft, United World Federalists, A Warning on World Government by Warren R. Austin 1949-1951, Alexander Wiley, and World Government.

Websites with information:

http://cdi.uvm.edu/findingaids/browseEAD.xql?cat=all&rep=

Finding aid:

http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/finding%20aids/austin.xml

[0211] [Australia First Movement: ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia]

Location: Petherick Reading Room (Ephemera Collection), National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Description: The Australia First Movement, a political pressure group with a strongly anti-British, anti-Semitic, anti-democratic, and pro-Fascist programme, was formed in October 1941 by Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901-1965), an Australian writer, editor and publisher.

Websites with information:

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stephensen-percy-reginald-8645

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/index.php?module=Record&id=2598696

[0212] Australia First Movement (The Publicist), 1939-1942, A6335, 3 [digital collection]

Location: National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes, ACT 2600, Australia

Description: The Australia First Movement grew out of strong anti-British sentiment and vigorous Australian nationalism. Several elements fuelled its creation, including the severity of the Great Depression and the imperialistic attitude of some prominent Britons living in Australia. Influences on the movement included writer Percy Reginald Stephensen and William John Miles, a Sydney businessman. Over a six-year partnership they attracted the wholehearted opposition of the Labor left and the tolerance of the right due only to their strong anti-Communism. The movement was attributed with a growing sympathy towards the German, Italian and Japanese governments. Between 1936 and 1942 the movement published 16 volumes of a newsletter titled The Publicist. This publication stated that its aim was to 'arouse in Australians a positive feeling, a distinctive Australian patriotism of a thoroughly realistic kind'. Its leaders and some of its members were secretly interned in March 1942. Their internment was based on the suspicion that the movement might attempt to provide help to Japanese invaders.