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

[0466] Campaign Materials Collection, 1892-2014, Pam 05

Location: Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula, Missoula, MT 59812

Description: This collection contains materials related to political campaigns and movements from the 1890s to the 2010s. Much of the collection includes candidate-specific materials, such as bumper stickers, newsletters, and posters. It also includes party publications, such as official platforms and handbooks; literature published by interest group organizations; and government publications. Includes copies of "1936 Psalm," an anti-Roosevelt poem; "Promise and Performance," an anti-Roosevelt booklet published by the Republican National Committee (1936); anti-Roosevelt literature from the Republican National Committee, the American Liberty League, and other groups (1940); booklets (3) published by T.J. Priestley of Philadelphia containing anti-New Deal, anti-Federal Reserve, and anti-Communist literature (1949); "Labor Bosses on the New Frontier," an anti-labor, anti-Kennedy brochure directed at Republican precinct workers (1961); The Red Record of Senator Claude Pepper; "Revolution on Campus," a mailer distributed by various Truth about Civil Turmoil [TACT] committees promoting a talk by David Emerson Gumaer on the subject of radicalism on college campuses; and campaign materials related to political campaigns for John Ashbrook, Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, Alf Landon, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Wallace, Burton K. Wheeler, and Wendell Willkie.

Finding aids:

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv79681

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv79681

[0466a] Jameson G. Campaigne papers, 1945-1986, Coll. 86020

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

Description: Jameson G. Campaigne (1914-1985) was an American journalist and editor of the Indianapolis Star, 1960-1969. Correspondence, newspaper columns and other writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to journalism and conservative political thought in the United States, and to American domestic and foreign policy.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt396nf0dk/entire_text/

[0467] Carroll Campbell Papers, 1978-1986 (bulk 1982-1985)

Location: Special Collections Library, Strom Thurmond Institute Building, Clemson University, 230 Kappa Street, Clemson, SC 29634-3001

Description: Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. (1940-2005) served South Carolina in Congress (1979-1987) and as Governor (1987-1995). The series Topical contains files on Abortion (Human Life Bill/ Right to Life Act of 1981, Hyde Amendment (Limiting Federal Funds), Respect Human Life Act of 1983 & Hyde/Jepson Respect Life Bill, Unborn Children's Civil Rights Act of 1985 (S. 46)); Civil Rights (Civil Rights Act, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Gay Rights, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Voting Rights Act:); Health (Birth Control, Parental Notification; Euthanasia); Labor (Right to Work); Law and Order (Ku Klux Klan); Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM); and Strom Thurmond.

Websites with information:

http://library.clemson.edu/depts/specialcollections/finding-aids/

Finding aid:

http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/manuscripts/mss087Campbell/Mss087Cam

pbellUSC.pdf

[0467a] Clarence G. Campbell Collection, 1921-1938, CGC

Location: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

Description: Clarence G. Campbell (1868-1956) was a noted eugenicist and first president of the Eugenics Research Association as well as the president of the American Eugenics Society in the late 1920s. He was a regular contributor to Eugenical News (the official publication of The Eugenics Research Association) and Eugenics (the official publication of American Eugenics Society). The collection consists of typescripts or reprints of articles, news clippings, ephemera, and letters. Correspondents include Charles B. Davenport, Eugenics Research Association, Irving Fisher, Madison Grant, Cora B. S. Hodson, Harry H. Laughlin, C. C. Little, Frank Lorimer, John C. Merriam (to Madison Grant), Frederick Osborn, and Henry Fairfield Osborn.

Finding aid:

http://internshipweblog.blogspot.com/p/cgc-finding-aid.html

[0468] Will D. Campbell Papers, ca. 1950-2001, M341

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

Description: Will Davis Campbell (1924-2013) was a Baptist minister and author and a major supporter of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Beginning in the 1950s, he worked in race relations with the National Council of Churches. Campbell resigned in 1963 to become the Director of the Committee of Southern Churchmen (formerly the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen), where he worked until the late 1970s. Series 8: Organizations, contains files on National Council of Churches: (Air Force Manual Controversy (1960); Campaign Against Right-Wing Radio Programs (1964); Communism Controversy (1951-1961)); Southern Regional Council: Benjamin Muse (1961-1964); and Tennessee Council on Human Relations: Integration of Tennessee Schools (1955-1956). Series 9: Race-Related Materials, contains files on Desegregation: Articles and Pamphlets (1958-1968) and Race-Related Materials (American Nationalist Literature (Undated); Articles and Pamphlets Concerning White Supremacist and Anti-Semitic Beliefs (1954-1963); Articles and Pamphlets on Race Relations in Mississippi (1955-1964); Bibliography of Race-Related Materials (Undated); Christian Nationalist Crusade Literature (Undated); Citizens Councils of Louisiana-Literature (1957); Civil Rights Materials (1963-1964); "Mixture of Races" (1955-1956); Tracts on the Bible and Race (1957-1958)). Series 10: General Subject Files, contains files on Anti-Communist Literature (Undated); Anti-Semitism (1961-1963); Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL (1963); Civil Rights Legislation (1963-1966); Allen Eugene "A. E." Cox (1992); Billy Graham (1971-1982); House Committee on Un-American Activities (1958-1961); John Birch Society-Correspondence and Publications (1961); and John Birch Society-Newspaper Articles (1961-1962).

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m341.htm

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m341.htm?m341text.htm~mainFrame

http://lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/finding_aids/m341

[0469] Campus social and political action collection, 1930-1991, Series No. 248

Location: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870

Description: Collection collocates fliers, publications, and ephemera from social and political movements on Emory University's campus. Files on Civil Rights movement; Communism on campus; and Conservative responses (Ad Hoc Committee to Defend our Commitment in Vietnam; Emory Conservative Coalition; Young Americans for Freedom), 1964-1970..

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0248socialandpoliticalaction/

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0248socialandpoliticalaction/printable/

[0469a] Canadian Pamphlet Collection: [3335] [digital collection; pamphlet collection]

Location: W.D. Jordan Special Collections Library, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 5C4, Canada

Description: Contains numerous pamphlets issued by the Conservative Party of Canada and the Liberal Conservative Party.

Websites with information:

http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/1953

Finding aid:

http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/8681

[0470] Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds, 1936-1992, Fonds 17

Location: Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Sherman Campus, 4600 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V2

Description: Fonds consists of the records of the Ontario Region office of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Series 5. Community Relations Committee series. Anti-Semitism Cases sub-series, contains files on the public meeting and demonstration by the Canadian Nazi Party at Allan Gardens, May 30, 1965; John Beattie's involvement in the Canadian Nazi Party; the Canadian Nazi Party (also known as the Canadian National Socialist Party) and its leader John Beattie; John Weisdorf, the Jewish lawyer of John Beattie (leader of the Canadian Nazi Party); Henry Hamilton Beamish, the anti-Semitic leader of the London Britons Society; Andre Bellefeuille, leader of the Canadian National Socialist Party (also known as Canada's Nazi leader and the Canadian Fuehrer); the Canadian Nationalist Party of Canada (also known as the Canadian Nazi Party, the Canadian National Socialist Party, and the National Unity Party of Canada); Wolfgang Droege, a leader of the racist Heritage Front; the anti-Semitic National Unity Front; Paul Fromm, an extreme right-wing leader; anti-Semitic statements and publications by Ron Gostick and the Social Credit party; copies of News Behind the News (National Federation of Christian Laymen); copies of Gostick's publications, The Canadian Intelligence Service and the Voice of Freedom (Mutual Co-operation League of Canada); a flyer of the Christian Action Movement (Ron Gostick was its National Director); Ron Gostick and copies of his anti-Semitic publications, the Canadian Intelligence Service, On Target, and Christian Action Movement newsletters; a Canadian League of Rights meeting invitation and brochure; Charlene Hategan, a member of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front and the first person charged under the hate crime section of the criminal code; Norman Gunn, a Canadian member of the John Birch Society; the hate crime trial of James Keegstra; Western Guard neo-Nazi posters; Kevin Lew, head of a cell of the Ku Klux Klan's National Knight's Network; Rev. A.U. Michelson, a California radio Hebrew Christian missionary who was accused of financial fraud; Viorel Trifa [Valerian Trifa] (accused of being responsible for a 1941 Jewish pogrom in Bucharest); National Federation of Christian Laymen; a publication "Renaissance" of the neo-Nazi Canadian National Socialist Party; Nationalist Party of Canada; National Socialist Underground; George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party; "The New Citizen," an anti-semitic publication published in Rouyn, Quebec; Janos Pall, a former member of the U.S. Nazi Party and a Canadian resident; the Social Credit party; "The Sphinx," an anti-Semitic publication; the Western Guard white supremacist group; issues of the Western Guard's publication, Straight Talk; Ernst Zündel, a Canadian neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier, and writer of hate literature; Paul Hartmann; THOR, an anti-Semitic publication; and neo-Nazis Gilbert Rondeau and John Ross Taylor. Series 5. Community Relations Committee series. Research Records sub-series. Hate Crimes and Hate Literature sub-sub-series [5-4-6], 1938-1978, consists of documentation of hate crimes committed against, and to intimidate, Jews and other minorities. Also included are examples of anti-Semitic hate literature found in posters, magazines, newspaper articles and books all designed to foster fear and/or hatred for Jews. Contains anti-Semitic hate literature published in Canada; correspondence regarding the anti-Semitic activities and publications of Ron Gostick; correspondence related to references to Jews in a book about Social Credit by John Allen Irving (The Social Credit Movement in Alberta, 1959); correspondence and meeting minutes related to Neo-Nazism; clippings related to the anti-Semitic activities of David Stanley; a publication of the Canadian National Socialist Party; correspondence and clippings regarding the controversy over the CBC interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, an American Nazi, and similar documents concerning the subsequent appearance of the Canadian David Stanley; an article from Maclean's Magazine about hate literature; correspondence related to the German Statute of Limitation on Nazi War Criminals; correspondence and reports regarding concern over the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany; the proclamation of the Canadian National Socialist Party and recruitment literature for its youth movement; a Canadian National Socialist Party bulletin; a copy of the speech delivered by John Beattie at Allan Gardens on May 5, 1968; correspondence, reports, a news release, and newspaper clippings regarding anti-Semitic and anti-Israel material published by A.C. Forrest in the United Church Observer; "Strictly Confidential" reports and correspondence documenting the activities of Canadian neo-Nazis and white supremacists as well as the Canadian Arab Federation; correspondence, an interview transcript, and newspaper clippings regarding the publication of A.C. Forrest's anti-Semitic book The Unholy Land; an obituary of A.C. Forrest.

Finding aid:

http://oja.andornot.com/Permalink/descriptions17073

[0471] Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records, 1738-present, Fonds CJC0001

Location: Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives, Concordia University, 1590 Docteur Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1C5, Canada

Description: Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) was founded in Montreal in March 1919 as the democratically elected, national organizational voice of the Jewish community of Canada. CJC ceased operations in July 2011, when it was absorbed into the newly-created Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). The series ZB (General Documentation: Personalia), 1625- , contains files on Jörg Haider, an Austrian right-wing politician who visited Montreal, 2000; Lyndon H. LaRouche, 1987-1990; and Leo Tremblay, founder of La Phalange, a right-wing separatist party, 1968-1969.

Reference:

Ross Lambertson, "Activists in the Age of Rights: The Struggle for Human Rights in Canada - 1945-1960" (Ph.D., University of Victoria, 1998), http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37352.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.cjhn.ca/en/explore/inventory-of-fonds.aspx

http://www.cjccc.ca/en/cjccc-national-archives/inventory-of-collections/

Finding aid:

http://www.cjhn.ca/permalink/2

[0471a] Canadian Labour Congress fonds, MG 28, I 103

Location: Manuscript Division, Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4, Canada

Description: The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is a country-wide labour organization founded in 1956 through a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL). Files on Anti-Semitism, Progressive Conservative Party, National Conservative Party, Communist Infiltration of Vancouver Unions, Communism, Communism-Canada, and Taft-Hartley Act. Copies of Ron Gostick, The Architects Behind the World Communist Conspiracy [1959]; United States House of Representatives. Committee on Un-American Activities, Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups (1954); American Federation of Labor, The American Federation of Labor vs. Communism (1946); Joseph A. Beirne, Communism is a Criminal Conspiracy (1954); Catholic Information Society. Pamphlets on Communism No. 1 to 26 (1947); Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Communists Within the Labor Movement (1947); Committee on Un-American Activities. 100 Things You Should Know About Communism and Labor (1948); U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Communist Domination of Certain Unions (1951); Robert Wynne, American Labour Leaders and the Vancouver Anti-Oriental Riot (1966); C.I.O. Department of Education And Research, What's Behind The Drive for Right to Work Laws? (1955); United States Chamber of Commerce, The Case For Voluntary Unionism [1955]; and H.J. Clawson, Union Security Clauses and the Right to Work (1952).

Reference:

Ross Lambertson, "Activists in the Age of Rights: The Struggle for Human Rights in Canada - 1945-1960" (Ph.D., University of Victoria, 1998), http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37352.pdf.

Finding aid:

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001618.pdf

[0472] Andrew M. Canepa collection, 1923-1971, Coll. 84034

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

Description: Printed miscellany, relating to Father Charles E. Coughlin; and 48 prints of Father Coughlin, 1933-1949, including prints of Coughlin with Congressman William Lemke, Gerald L. K. Smith, and Dr. Francis E. Townsend.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8z09r8vw/entire_text/

Finding aids to photographs (84034 - 10.A-V):

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7c603790/entire_text/

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/90/kt7c603790/files/kt7c603790.pdf

[0473] James Cannon papers 1869-1989, RL.00188

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 90185, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185

Description: James Cannon (1864-1944) was a Methodist clergyman, journalist, and leader in the prohibition movement. Diaries, correspondence, reports, minutes, journals, articles, legal papers, pamphlets, obituaries, and other papers. Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Carter Glass, Herbert Hoover, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald P. Nye.

Reference:

Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, edited by Richard C. Davis and Linda Angle Miller (1980), http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/­findingaids/guide/ and http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/guide.pdf

Finding aids:

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cannonja/

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cannonja.pdf

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cannonja/pdf

[0473a] Walter Bradford Cannon Papers, 1873-1945 (inclusive), 1881-1945 (bulk), H MS c40

Location: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical Library and Boston Medical Library, Boston, Mass.

Description: Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945) was professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School. The collection consists of correspondence, research data, manuscripts, lecture notes, and meeting minutes resulting from Cannon's administrative and committee work at Harvard Medical School, his professional activities on behalf of refugees and other humanitarian interests; and his involvement in scientific organizations. The collection also contains records produced during Cannon's wartime medical service, extensive personal correspondence with his wife, Cornelia Cannon; and several personal items including letters and papers from Cannon's student years. Correspondents include L.A. Alesen; J.R. Angell; Helen Bailie; L.M. Birkhead; Isaiah Bowman; V. Bush; Alexis Carrel; J. McKeen Cattell; Grenville Clark; E.G. Conklin; C.S. Coon; F.R. Coudert, Jr.; Charles B. Davenport; Lydia DeVilbiss (re Maternity Education and Eugenics Health Education Committees); Eugenics Record Office and Biological Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island; Irving Fisher (re Eugenics Committee of the U.S.A.); W.E. Hocking; S.J. Holmes; Sidney Hook; A. Hrdlička; H.S. Jennings; John Harvey Kellogg; Alfred Kohlberg; C.C. Little; H.C. Lodge, Jr.; A. Lawrence Lowell; H.R. Luce; R.A. Millikan; William B. Munro; Frederick Osborn; Porter Sargent; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Dorothy Thompson; Charles Warren; L.F. Whitney; and Robert M. Yerkes.

Finding aid:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~med00088

[0473b] Albert F. Canwell: An Oral History. Interviewed by Timothy Frederick (Olympia, Washington, Washington State Oral History Program, 1997) [oral history]

Description: Albert Franklyn "Al" Canwell (1907-2002) was an American journalist and politician who served as a member of the Washington State legislature from 1947 to 1948. He is best remembered for the legislature's Canwell Committee to investigate Communist influence in Washington state, patterned after the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) of the United States Congress. After his legislative service Canwell operated the American Intelligence Service (Spokane), which published The Vigilante, an anti-Communist newsletter. Canwell was a leading West Coast supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy. In 1963 Canwell was the subject of a libel suit when he intimated that Washington state representative John Goldmark and his wife were Communist agents. The jury awarded $40,000 in damages but the verdict was later set aside.

Online edited transcript:

https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/collection/pdf/canwell.pdf

[0474] Homer E. Capehart Papers, 1938-1962, Collection #M 0817, CT 1516-1525, OM 0413

Location: Manuscript and Visual Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

Description: Capehart (1897-1979) was a U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1945-1963. This collection is divided into three series; Series 1: Campaign Materials, Series 2: Senate Materials, and Series 3: Business and Home Life. Series 2: Senate Materials, contains a copy of the Capehart Report, 24 May, 1962 (audio tape), in which Senator Capehart welcomes Senator Hickenlooper as his guest.

Finding aid:

http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/homer-e-capehart-papers-1938-1962.pdf

[0475] Capitol Office Materials, Record Group 3; Moral Majority

Location: Liberty University Archive, Jerry Falwell Library - 1971 University Blvd MSC Box 710170, Lynchburg, VA 24515

Description: This Record Group contains papers from the capitol office of the Moral Majority, including handbooks and manuals, news articles, information packets, workshop materials, and political campaign materials.

Finding aid:

http://www.liberty.edu/media/1410/archive_finding_aids/MOR%20RG-03.pdf

[0476] Arthur Capper Papers, bulk 1919-1949, Collection 12 [partly digital collection]

Location: Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66615-1099

Description: Arthur Capper (1865-1951) was a United States senator from Kansas, 1919-1949. Correspondence with Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, Sen. Wm. E. Borah, Sen. Ralph O. Brewster, Sen. Owen Brewster, John W. Bricker, Sen. Harry Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, George Creel, Rep. Martin Dies, Charles Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rep. Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, James V. Forrestal, William Randolph Hearst, Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Herbert Hoover, Patrick Hurley, Sen. William E. Jenner, Sen. William F. Knowland, Alfred M. Landon, William Langer, Rep. William Lemke, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, Henry R. Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Sen. George W. Malone, Sen. Gerald P. Nye, W. Lee O'Daniel, Rep. Wright Patman, Rep. John E. Rankin, Ogden Reid, Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, E. V. Rickenbacker, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Sen. Richard B. Russell, Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, chairman of Committee of 1,000,000, Sen. Robert A. Taft, Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Sen. Alexander Wiley, Wendell L. Willkie, and R. E. Wood, President Sears Roebuck & America First Committee 1941. General Correspondence files on Nagene Campbell Bethune, one-time Republican candidate for Congress, 4th district Connecticut; Styles Bridges; Communism, including on Hamilton Fish's book, "The Challenge of World Communism" (1946); Dwight David Eisenhower; FBI, consisting almost entirely of personal notes between Capper and J. Edgar Hoover; Global Alphabet 1943, regarding Hon. Robert L. Owen's petition to the Senate; Walter Harnischfeger, Milwaukee; General Douglas MacArthur, with Frank E. Gannett supporting him for President; Taft-Hartley Act 1947; New Deal 1933-1938, with clippings & speeches by Capper showing his swing from supporting FDR in 1933 to being a critical foe in 1938, and containing a copy of Alphabetical agencies created under the Roosevelt New Deal Party, by E.M. Biggers (Houston, Texas, Biggers Printing Company, 1932) [online at http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/217687]; and Gerald B. Winrod. Agricultural Correspondence on the Brannan Plan. Speeches on Sen. Huey Long's assassination; War Bill #1776 as a dictatorship bill; opposition to HR 1776 (lend-lease bill); Dumbarton Oaks; UN Charter & Bretton Woods Agreement; Brannan Farm Plan opposition by American Farm Bureau Association; applauding Joe McCarthy's communist hunt; and applauding Hoover, Taft, and McCarthy.