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

Description: David William Belin (1928-1999) was an attorney, activist, and author. Series 4. Topical Files, contains copies of the following Anti-Defamation League publications: The Anti-Semitism of Black Demagogues and Extremists (1992); Farrakhan Unchanged: The Continuing Message of Hate (1994); Highlights from an Anti-Defamation League Survey on Anti-Semitism and Prejudice in America: November 16, 1992 (1992); Jew-Hatred As History: An Analysis of the Nation of Islam's 'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews' (1993); The Klan Splits: A Radical Breakaway (1994); Louis Farrakhan: The Campaign to Manipulate Public Opinion. A Study in the Packaging of Bigotry (1990); The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate (March 1994-March 1995) (1995); William L. Pierce: Novelist of Hate (1995); Stoner Takes Aim: An Old Klansman's New Crusade (1995); Extremism on the Right: A Handbook (rev. 1988); Hitler's Apologists: The Anti-Semitic Propaganda of Holocaust "Revisionism" (1993); Embattled Bigots: A Split in the Ranks of the Holocaust Denial Movement (1994); and The Skinhead International: A Worldwide Survey of Neo-Nazi Skinheads (1995).

Finding aid:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-belin?rgn=main;view=text

[0263] Alphonzo Bell papers, 1933-1987, Collection no. 0215

Location: Regional History Collections, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library 206, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

Description: Alphonzo Bell, Jr. (1914-2004) was a United States Congressman who represented the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts of California between 1961 and 1977. Series 5: Subject Files 1940-1987, contains files on Abortion; Captive Nations Week 1968-1976; Civil Rights; Communism; Education: School Prayer Amendment 1969-1971; Equal Rights Amendment 1973-1975; Gun Control 1968-1975; Thruston B. Morton: Los Angeles Visit 1959; Panama Canal Treaty; Raymond Moley; and Un-American Activities, House Committee 1955-1959.

Websites with information:

https://www.usc.edu/libraries/finding_aids/list_az.php?nav=B

Finding aid:

http://www.usc.edu/libraries/finding_aids/records/finding_aid.php?fa=0215

http://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/214

[0263a] Edward Price Bell Papers, 1886-1951 (bulk 1900-1942), Midwest.MS.Bell

Location: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610

Description: Edward Price Bell (1869-1943) was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and roving correspondent for the Literary Digest. In the 1920s Bell also reported on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan for the Chicago Daily News, later publishing the articles in a pamphlet entitled "Creed of the Klansman." On the eve of World War II Bell held decidedly isolationist views, believing that American involvement in the European war was antithetical to achieving world peace. Series 1. Incoming Correspondence, 1896-1942, contains files on America First Committee; American Mercury (New York, NY); L.S. Amery; Charles Austin Beard; David Beatty (English-Speaking Union); Constantine Brown (Chicago Daily News); Colonel John Buchan; Nicholas Murray Butler; Arthur Capper (U.S. Senate); Alexis Carrel (Rockefeller Institute); Madame Chiang Kai-Shek; Cyril Clemens (International Mark Twain Society); B. Coleman (American Legion); Seward Collins (The American Review); Calvin Coolidge (signed by secretaries); Lionel Curtis (Committee of Imperial Defence); John Daniels (English Speaking Union of the United States); Thomas E. Dewey; M.S. Eisenhower (U.S. Department of Agriculture); English-Speaking Union; Carter Glass; J. Bennett Gordon (Republican National Committee); James M. Gray (Moody Bible Institute); Joseph C. Grew; Ernest Gruening; William Randolph Hearst (secretary); Rush D. Holt; Herbert Hoover; Stanley K. Hornbeck; Roy Howard (Scripps-Howard Newspapers); Frank Knox; H.H. Laughlin (Eugenics Record Office); William Maddox (Rockford College); Robert McCormick (Chicago Tribune); Mrs. Richard W. Meade (Clearinghouse for National Interests); Raymond Moley (Today Magazine); George Van Horn Moseley; No Foreign War Committee; Gerald P. Nye; Paul Palmer (American Mercury); Reader's Digest; Republican National Committee; Elihu Root; Porter Sargent; Mrs. Alexander Sclanders (Daughters of the American Revolution); Robert A. Taft; Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata (in Italian); Dudley White (Republican National Committee); Wendell Willkie; Robert E. Wood; and Owen D. Young (on behalf of). Series 2. Outgoing Correspondence, 1901-1942, contains files on American Mercury, American Review, David Baxter, Constantine Brown, Nicholas Murray Butler (Columbia University), Senator James F. Byrnes, Senator Arthur Capper; Alexis Carrel (Rockefeller Institute); Chiang Kai-Shek; Madame Chiang Kai-Shek; Conte Ciano; Cyril Clemens (International Mark Twain Society); Seward Collins (The American Review); Calvin Coolidge; Cathrine Curtis; Franklin D'Olier (American Legion); Thomas Edmund Dewey; Martin Dies (and other politicians); George T. Eggleston (Scribner's Commentator); Janet Ayer Fairbank (America First Committee); John Thomas Flynn; Frank Ernest Gannett; Carter Glass; Joseph Grew; William Randolph Hearst; Adolf Hitler; Herbert Hoover; Stanley K. Hornbeck; Roy Howard (World Telegram); Grace Keefe; Frederick Kister; Colonel Frank Knox (Chicago Daily News); Alf Landon; Harry Hamilton Laughlin (Eugenics Record Office); Charles A. Lindbergh; Verne Marshall (No Foreign War Committee); Colonel Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune); H.L. Mencken (American Mercury); Dr. Raymond Moley (Today Magazine); Benito Mussolini; Gerald P. Nye; Paul Palmer; John J. Raskob (Democratic National Committee); F.S. Records (Republican National Committee); Elihu Root; Porter Sargent; Sheaffer Pen Co.; R. Douglas Stuart (America First Committee); Robert A. Taft; John B. Trevor; Earl G. Turner (Republican National Committee); Giuseppe Volpi; Burton K. Wheeler; William Allen White; Wendell Willkie; Robert E. Wood (America First Committee); and Owen D. Young. Series 3. Works, 1895-1942, contains files on interviews with Chiang Kai-Shek (1934), Adolf Hitler (1935), Herbert Hoover (1923-1932), and Benito Mussolini (1924-1925); files on Senator Borah; Chiang Kai-Shek; Ku Klux Klan; League of Nations; V.S. McClatchy and the California Joint Immigration Committee on the Pacific Problem, Apr. 7, 1925; and Elihu Root; and a copy of Italy's Rebirth - Mussolini interview text in booklet published by the Chicago Daily News, 1924 [Edward Price Bell, Italy's Rebirth: Premier Mussolini Tells of Fascismo's Purposes ([Chicago, The Chicago Daily News Co., 1924])]. Series 4. Subject Files, 1908-1947, contains files on America First Committee; Herbert Hoover; Ralph Townsend (booklet, "Seeking Foreign Trouble," 1940 [online at http://utdr.utoledo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2381&context=ur-87-68]); Weekly Foreign Letter, nos. 147-149 - written & published by Lawrence Dennis, 1941; and Wendell L. Willkie; and a scrapbook, The League, Yes or No? ca. 1920.

Websites with information:

http://mms.newberry.org/detail.asp?recordid=102

http://mms.newberry.org/results.asp?subjectid=4580

Finding aid:

http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Bell.xml

[0264] Jack Bell Papers, 1937-1970

Location: Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, 401 West Brooks Street, Norman, OK 73019

Description: Jack L. Bell (1894-1975) was a journalist with the Associated Press (1937-1969). Manuscripts and galley proofs (1960-1962) of books by Bell, including Mr. Conservative: Barry Goldwater. Correspondents include Ezra Taft Benson, Harry F. Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Everett McKinley Dirksen, James O. Eastland, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Richard Russell, and Leverett Saltonstall.

Reference:

Guide to manuscripts in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma, compiled by Kristina L. Southwell (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002).

Websites with information:

http://libraries.ou.edu/locations/docs/westhist/pdf/

http://guides.ou.edu/westernhistory

Finding aid:

http://libraries.ou.edu/locations/docs/westhist/pdf/BellJack.pdf

[0265] Dr. Kate Bell Collection, 1952-1958, MSS.0098

Location: Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney, Houston, Texas 77002

Description: Dr. Kate Bell was a teacher with the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and president of the Texas State Teachers Association in 1953. Dr. George Ebey was hired by HISD as deputy superintendent in 1952 but was fired the following year by the school board on the grounds that, although there was no evidence that Ebey was himself a Communist, he had worked with known subversives. Bell supported Ebey; the Minute Women, a right-wing anti-Communist pressure group, supported the school board's actions. The collection includes brochures, statements, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/browse/browse_houpub1.html

Finding aid:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00134/hpub-00134.html

[0266] Papers of Lemuel Nelson Bell, 1923-1973, Collection 318

Location: Archives, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College, 500 College Ave., 3rd floor, Wheaton, IL 60187-5593

Description: Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of Bell (1894-1973), first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The Presbyterian Journal; the conflict between liberals and conservatives in Protestant Christianity. Series III: Bob Jones Correspondence, contains letters and materials related to the bitter correspondence between Bell and evangelist and educator Bob Jones, Sr., who criticized Billy Graham for being untrue to the faith. Series IV. General Correspondence, contains files on Abortion, American Council of Christian Laymen, America's Future, Inc., Pat Boone, British-Israel Theory, Campus Crusade for Christ, Chiang Kai-shek, Christian Anti-Communism Movement, Christian Freedom Foundation, Communism, Kenneth DeCourcy, Everett Dirksen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pennsylvania Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, G. T. Gillespie, Billy Graham, Grass Roots League, Billy James Hargis, Paul Harvey, Jesse Helms, Homosexuals, House Un-American Affairs Committee, John Birch Society, Bob Jones, Sr., Walter Judd, Howard E. Kershner, Ku Klux Klan, David Lawrence, C.S. Lewis (Article on Capital Punishment), Henry Luce, Russell Maguire (American Mercury publisher), Carl McIntire, National Layman's Council of the Church League of America, Richard Milhous Nixon, J. Howard Pew, Prayer in Public Schools, Race Problem, Reader's Digest, Right to Work Laws, Oral Roberts, Richard Russell, Robert Schuller, Segregation, Socialized Medicine, Marcius Taber, Harold Velde, and Richard Wurmbrand.

Websites with information:

http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/g2.htm

Finding aid:

http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/318.htm

[0266a] Hilaire Belloc Collection, 1880-1963, undated, Manuscript Collection MS-0325

Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

Description: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was an Anglo-French author, poet, and historian. Manuscripts for a number of his novels, poems, histories, essays, and books for children are present, along with correspondence between Belloc, his literary agent A. D. Peters, and the Belloc family.

Websites with information:

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/curatorial.cfm

Finding aids:

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/01090.pdf

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/01090/hrc-01090.html

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01090

[0266b] Hilaire Belloc Collection of Papers, 1897-1950, Berg Coll MSS Belloc

Location: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Third Floor, Room 320, The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788

Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, a travel diary for 1930, a commonplace book for 1924, and financial documents.

Finding aids:

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19228

http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/generated_finding_aids/brg19228.pdf

[0266c] Hilaire Belloc Diary and Sketchbooks, 1889-1953, BEL

Location: University of Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Description: Diary dating from 12 April to 11 October 1889, including some sketches and drafts of poems; sketchbook dating from 1891, with monochromatic drawings of American landscape; sketchbook dating from 1893-1894, with watercolors of French landscape and buildings; sketchbook dating from 1912, with pencil drawings of European scenes, including mountains, bridges, cathedrals, steeples, towers, soldiers, and Robespierre's house.

Finding aid:

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/BEL.htm

[0266d] Belloc Family Correspondence, 1829-1963, undated (bulk 1902-1926), MS2007-09

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: This collection contains correspondence to and from various members of the Belloc family including Hilaire, his wife Elodie (Hogan), and their five children. It also contains a small amount of miscellaneous correspondence from non-family members, as well as a number of Belloc family administrative documents such as marriage certificates, licenses and passports.

Finding aid:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2007-009-finding-aid.pdf

[0266e] Belloc Family Correspondence, 1849-1976, undated (bulk 1900-1942), MS2007-08

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: This collection contains correspondence to and from various members of the Belloc family including Hilaire Belloc; his wife, Elodie Belloc; his mother, Bessie R. Belloc; his sister Marie Belloc Lowndes; and Hilaire and Elodie's five children.

Finding aid:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS1996-028-finding-aid.pdf

[0266f] Belloc Family Correspondence, 1858-1974 (bulk 1922-1941), MS1996-28

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was a British politician and journalist. This collection contains correspondence between Belloc and various correspondents, as well as a few of Belloc's handwritten notes and memorandum.

Finding aid:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2007-007-finding-aid.pdf

[0266g] Belloc Family Correspondence, 1873-1947, undated (bulk 1912-1941), MS2007-07

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: This collection contains correspondence to and from members of Hilaire Belloc's extended family. It features correspondence between Belloc and his three sons; as well as correspondence between Belloc and his sister, Marie Belloc Lowndes. This collection also includes correspondence between Belloc and his mother, Bessie Raynor Parkes Belloc.

Finding aid:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2007-008-finding-aid.pdf

[0266h] Hilaire Belloc Papers, 1694-2004, bulk 1895-1953, MS2007-12

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: The collection consists mainly of manuscripts, publications, and printed materials from Belloc's nearly sixty years as a public intellectual. Also included are artwork and photographs of Belloc, various family members, and Belloc's King's Land estate. The collection also contains Belloc diaries, memoranda, notes, and bibliographies, and background materials that date back to 1694.

Reference:

David E. Horn, edited and revised by Chad M. Landrum, "Hilaire Belloc: the Poet, the Author, and the Humorist," John J. Burns Library's Blog, October 17, 2016, https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/­2016/10/17/hilaire-belloc-the-poet-the-author-and-the-humorist/.

Finding aids:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2006-035-finding-aid.pdf

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1127

[0266i] Hilaire Belloc Papers, 1834-circa 1970, bulk 1907-1938, MS2005-03

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: The bulk of the materials are published and unpublished writings of Hilaire Belloc, including manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, galleys, and reprints of various articles, essays, reviews, poetry, plays, prose, notes, and about eighty of Belloc's books. Among the other publications in this collection are a series of reviews of Belloc's books and articles, commentary on Belloc's politics, parliamentary materials saved by Belloc, and printed materials including book notices, lecture notices, syllabi, speeches, news clippings, leaflets, advertisements, and weekly journals.

Reference:

David E. Horn, edited and revised by Chad M. Landrum, "Hilaire Belloc: the Poet, the Author, and the Humorist," John J. Burns Library's Blog, October 17, 2016, https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/­2016/10/17/hilaire-belloc-the-poet-the-author-and-the-humorist/.

Finding aids:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2005-003-finding-aid.pdf

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1125

[0266j] Hilaire Belloc Papers, 1891-1948, undated, MS2005-02

Location: John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467-3801

Description: Joseph-Pierre Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was an historian, poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, and travel writer. The Hilaire Belloc Papers consist of approximately 160,000 letters to and from Belloc. Correspondents include Leo S. Amery, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Ralph Adams Cram (architect, Boston), G.K.'s Weekly ("The Distributist League"), Christopher Hollis, and Hoffman Nickerson.

References:

Ralph J. Coffman, "The Hilaire Belloc Collection at Boston College," Catholic Library World, Volume 56, No. 1 (Jul-Aug 1984), pp. 32-36; Ralph J. Coffman, "The Hilaire Belloc Collection at Boston College," Chesterton Review, Volume 12, Issue 2 (May 1986), pp. 209-220; Belloc Collection Inventory (Boston College. John J. Burns Library, 1995); David E. Horn, edited and revised by Chad M. Landrum, "Hilaire Belloc: the Poet, the Author, and the Humorist," John J. Burns Library's Blog, October 17, 2016, https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/hilaire-belloc-the-poet-the-author-and-the-humorist/.

Websites with information:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS1988-008-finding-aid.pdf

Finding aids:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2005-002-finding-aid.pdf

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1124

http://dcollections.bc.edu/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1435289812391~556&locale=en_US&VIEWER_

URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

[0267] Eric Cyril Bellquist Papers, 1928-1979, Coll. 81092

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

Description: Bellquist (1904-1979) was a Professor, University of California at Berkeley. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, writings, press releases, printed matter, and audiovisual material, relating to American propaganda activities during and after World War II; postwar American foreign policy, especially in Scandinavia; political conditions in the United States, Sweden, and elsewhere in Europe; and public opinion formation. Files on America First Committee, American Liberty League, California Crusaders, Communism, Herbert Hoover, Malta and Yalta Conferences of 1945, National Republic, and Operation Alert.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf567nb0kf/entire_text/

[0268] FitzGerald Bemiss Papers, 1952-1988, Mss1 B4252a FA2

Location: Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23220

Description: FitzGerald Bemiss (1922-2011) was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the school desegregation crisis. In the 1956 session of the general assembly, Bemiss voted with the majority in support of a resolution of "Interposition." This doctrine asserts that individual states have the power to declare a decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue is settled through the amendment process. As a member of the Gray Commission on Public Education, Bemiss supported "local option," was opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay Almond's "freedom of choice" compromise. Series 1: General Assembly. House of Delegates. 1955-1959, contains "Interposition" materials, including the editorial series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader, Gray Commission materials, and correspondence with Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.

Websites with information:

http://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/researcher-resource

s/finding-aids

Finding aids:

http://www.vahistorical.org/collections-and-resources/how-we-can-help-your-research/researcher-resource

s/finding-aids/bemiss

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vhs/vih00002.xml

[0269] Rabbi David Z. Ben-Ami Papers, 1924 to 2003 (bulk early 1960s-2001), M365 [partly digital collection]

Location: Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive #5148, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148

Description: David Z. Ben-Ami (1924-2008) accepted the rabbinate at Temple B'Nai Israel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1963. In Hattiesburg, Ben-Ami became involved in civil rights activities, leading to the non-renewal of his contract as rabbi in 1965. This collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials. Includes a folder of segregationist responses to civil rights activities in Mississippi.

Websites with information:

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=1289

http://crdl.usg.edu/people/b/ben_ami_david_z_1924/?Welcome

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/55002918

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m365.htm

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m365.htm?m365text.htm~mainFrame

http://lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/finding_aids/m365

Finding aid to digital collection:

Copies of Wake up and live: keep sleeping and perish; undated [maintains that Jews and Communists are brainwashing Americans by using control over the news media to advance views on civil rights]; Klan Ledger; [1964] [maintains that civil rights workers are Communists in disguise and that governmental officials are in league with them]; and Citizen patriot; undated [circa 1964] [urges Mississippians to resist the Civil Rights Bill and join a white boycott of Hattiesburg businesses whose owners and corporate partners are identified as supporters of civil rights].

http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/M365%20Ben-Ami%20(Rabbi%20David%20Z.)%20­Papers./m

ode/exact

[0270] Jan BenDor papers, 1974-2005 (bulk 1988-1992), 2010190 Aa 2; Ual