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

Websites with information:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/specalphae

Finding aids:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/beckett

http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15847coll6/id/89/rec/1

http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15847coll6/id/89

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.517337!/file/BeckettCollection.pdf

[0260] Peter Beckman teaching collection, 1954-1977 and undated, MSS 156

Location: Special Collections, Thomas Tredway Library, Augustana College, 639 38th St., Rock Island, IL 61201

Description: Peter Beckman (1924- ) taught in the religion department of Augustana College from 1960 to 1990. Beckman assembled this collection in order to inform students about some of the more radical political and religious views circulating throughout the United States in the 1950s, 1960s, and the 1970s. The series Subject Files, 1954-1977 and undated, contains files on America's Future, American Opinion, American Crusader, Anti-Smut, Anti-Socialism, Anti-Semitism Bibliography, Anti-Federal Government, Anti-Communism in Africa, Billy James Hargis, C.E.A.S.E. [The Committee to End Aid to the Soviet Enemy], Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Commentary, Church League of America, Circuit Riders, Civil Rights, Communism and the Civil Rights Movement, Conservatism in Major Political Parties, Conservative Victory Fund, Council of Churches and Carl McIntire, Council for Civic Responsibility, Council on Foreign Relations, Crestwood Books, European Fascist and National Socialist Groups, Extreme Right, Extremism, Finances of the Right Wing, For America, Human Events, Independent Conservative Parties, Institute for American Strategy, Iowa S.Y.L.P. [Support Your Local Police], James Madison Foundation, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Liberty Lobby, Max Rafferty, Minutemen, National Tax Reform Committee, National Right to Work, Non-Voting and Moderate Middle in Major Parties, Non-Communist Left, Para-Military, Patriotism, Paul C. Neipps, Phyllis Schlafly, Princeton Religious Research Center, Radical Right Groups, Radical Right, Radicalism and Reform, Respectable Right, Some Theoretical Assumptions of Extremism, Super Patriotism, Teen Age Republicans, The United States Anti-Communist Congress Inc, The American Right Wing, The Bible and Capitalism, Trial by Battle, and Young Americans for Freedom. The series Publications, 1955-1975 and undated, contains copies of American Independence Party, American Medical News, Christian Economics, Christian Herald, Christian Perspectives, Christian Economics, Christian News, Common Sense, Dan Smoot Report, Economic Education Bulletin, Fact Finder, Free Enterprise, Freedom Talk, Homefront, Lutherans Alert, Police Gazette, Reason, Roll Call, Success in Politics, Taxpayers Power, The White World, The Cross and the Flag, The Church of God, The Weekly Crusader, The Independent American, The Presbyterian Layman, Through to Victory, Tocsin, and Western Voice. The series Campaign Materials, 1967-1972 and undated, contains files on Constitution Party of Florida, Radical Right, and The Wallace Campaign.

Websites with information:

http://www.augustana.edu/SpecialCollections/Resources/Finding%20Aids/index.html

Finding aid:

http://www.augustana.edu/SpecialCollections/Resources/Finding%20Aids/MSS156.htm

[0260a] Byron de la Beckwith Correspondence, Photographs, and Other Materials, circa 1940-1992, MS.3439

Location: Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 121 John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

Description: Byron de la Beckwith (1920-2001) was a white supremacist and ordained minister in Christian Identity. This collection consists primarily of letters that de la Beckwith wrote to his wife, Mary Louise (Williams) Beckwith, his son, Byron de la Beckwith Jr., and his brother- and sister-in-law, Jesse and Frances Williams, while he was incarcerated before and during his first trial for the murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Another set of correspondence was written between Beckwith and his nephew, B. Reed Massengill, while Massengill was working on a never-completed book chronicling Beckwith's life. Also included are photographs (some of which were published in Massengill's Portrait of a Racist) showing Beckwith and his family. In the letters to Massengill, Beckwith's Christian Identity principles are displayed prominently. Beckwith also enclosed leaflets, newspapers, and other items published by such organizations as the Christian Defense League, Aryan Nations, and the Ku Klux Klan for Massengill's edification.

References:

Elizabeth Dunham, "'On the White, Right, Christian Side of Every Issue': The Life and Death of Byron de la Beckwith," The Library Development Review (University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tennessee) (2009-2010), pp. 5-7, http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_libdevel/103 and https://www.academia.edu/500202/­On_the_White_Ri

ght_Christian_Side_of_Every_Issue_The_Life_and_Death_of_Byron_de_la_Beckwith; Elizabeth Dunham, "Documenting a White Supremacist: The Byron de la Beckwith Papers," Archives and Archivists of Color Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 5-6, https://www.academia.edu/500214/­Documenting_a_White_Supremacist_The_Byron_de_la_Beckwith_Papers.

Websites with information:

http://libguides.utk.edu/c.php?g=188664&p=1245273

Finding aid:

http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_002749_000000_0000/0012_002749_000000_0000.xml

[0260b] Byron de la Beckwith Letter, 1972, MS.2271

Location: Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 121 John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

Description: Byron De La Beckwith (1920-2001) was an American white supremacist and the assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963, in Jackson, MS. He was twice tried for Evers' murder in 1964, but avoided convictions when the juries both returned deadlocked. Based on new evidence that he had boasted about the assassination at a Ku Klux Klan rally, De La Beckwith was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1994. In 2001, while his case was still being appealed, he died of heart problems in prison. The letter is a March 21, 1972, handwritten letter of application for employment with Bryan Brothers Packing Company in West Point, MS.

Finding aid:

http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_000728_000000_0000/0012_000728_000000_0000.xml

[0260c] Byron de la Beckwith papers, circa 1990, ACMA.M06-051

Location: Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 1901 Fort Place, SE, Washington, D.C., 20020

Description: Byron de la Beckwith (1920-2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman who was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. This collection contains newsletters from white supremacist organizations and photocopies of articles about Byron de la Beckwith. These items were used as stationery by de la Beckwith while he was in prison in Mississippi and most are liberally covered with his handwriting. On them, de la Beckwith expounds on his ideas of racial segregation and white power. Also present are notes in de la Beckwith's hand, as well as a copy of the Watchdog, a white supremacist newspaper.

Finding aid:

http://sova.si.edu/record/ACMA.M06-051

[0260d] [Duke of] Bedford (Great Britain) Collection

Location: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

Description: Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (1888-1953) was a pacifist and patron of the British People's Party, an anti-war party. Files on British People's Party and National Freedom Rally.

Websites with information:

https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/manuscriptcollections/mss_collections.html

[0260e] Duke of Bedford Letters and printed material, 1941-1956, RUB Bay 0039:05 items1-18 c.1

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

Description: The Duke of Bedford (1888-1953) was a British pacifist, reformer, and author. Letters to Mr. Curtler regarding political and economic issues, including Social Credit, coal exports, and the repayment of the American loan; and printed material by and about Russell, including pamphlets, serials, and a speech.

Websites with information:

http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE001030491

http://www.worldcat.org/title/letters-and-printed-material-1941-1956/oclc/24778355

[0260f] Duke of Bedford papers, 1942-1952, Coll. 73018

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

Description: Pamphlets by the Duke of Bedford, 1942-1952, and correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Louis Obed Renne, 1948-1952, relating to pacifism and military disarmament.

Websites with information:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/duke-of-bedford-papers-1942-1952/oclc/754869967

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4k40357c/entire_text/

[0260g] Michael Bedford Collection, 1982-1991 (bulk 1986-1989), COLL00014

Location: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Description: Michael Bedford (1946– ) lived and worked in the Philippines in 1970-1972 and 1975 and was involved in the anti-Marcos movement that centered on U.S. involvement in Philippine politics. Between 1986 and 1990 Bedford conducted interviews in the Philippines, most of them directly after the EDSA revolution in 1986. The purpose of his research was to understand the political struggles during the Corazon Aquino presidency between Legal Left groups and the liberation theology arm of the Roman Catholic Church on one side, and the conservative Roman Catholic Church, the rise in U.S. Protestant missionaries and corresponding growth of local anti-Communist vigilante organizations under the name of Christ on the other side. This is a documentation/research collection on right-wing vigilantes in the Philippines and the support they found in right-wing Christian groups in the USA. The vigilantes were responsible for the killings of many human rights activists, left wing activists, and labour leaders. The collection contains 56 audiocassettes consisting of unpublished interviews with a right wing vigilante, the head of the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade [CACC], priests involved in Liberation Theology, human rights workers, and others. Also included are 247 photos and slides of demonstrations and protest meetings of various parties and groups to the left and to the right of the political spectrum in the Philippines and of some other events, 1982-1991.

References:

"Guide to the International Archives and Collections at the IISH: Supplement over 2013," International Review of Social History 59 (2014), pp. 367-376 (p. 368), https://www.cambridge.org/­core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CF6B9AD975C680C16D58BBD292833AA7/S0020859014000285a.pdf; Eef Vermeij, "Michael Bedford Collection," South East Asia Blog, IISH, 14 August 2014, https://socialhistory.org/en/south-east-asia-blog/2014/08/michael-bedford-collection; Eef Vermeij, "Michael Bedford Papers," South East Asia Blog, IISH, 06 April 2015, https://socialhistory.org/­en/south-east-asia-blog/2015/04/michael-bedford-papers.

Finding aids:

http://hdl.handle.net/10622/COLL00014

https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/COLL00014

[0260h] Michael Bedford Papers, (1951) 1985-1996 (bulk 1985-1991), ARCH04328

Location: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Description: The papers consist of drafts, travel notebooks, and travel reports 1985-1991; correspondence, 1985-1989; transcripts of interviews held with about twenty persons, 1985-1990; and files on the Baptist Church, the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, the Unified Church (Moon), and other right-wing organizations, and on various persons, organizations, and the Philippines in general, (1951) 1985-1992.

Reference:

"Guide to the International Archives and Collections at the IISH: Supplement over 2014," International Review of Social History 60 (2015), pp. 337-348 (p. 339).

Finding aids:

http://hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH04328

https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH04328

https://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH04328/Export?style=PDF

[0260i] Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair [partly digital collection]

Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206

Description: The Collection consists of over one thousand items related to the Dreyfus Affair. Notable documents in the collection include "A La Nation" (Fedération des groupes de la jeunesse antisémite et nationaliste, [Paris?] September 1898), a large-scale poster promoting nationalist and anti-Semitic activism among student groups in Paris; an anti-Semitic broadside, Adolphe Willette, Candidat antisémite, Elections législatives du 22 Septembre 1889; the official poster announcing the decision of the Cour de Cassation (Court of Appeals) to hold a retrial of Dreyfus at Rennes (June 1899); "Histoire d'un traitre," an antidreyfusard print narrating the affair (Imprimerie spéciale de la Libre Parole [1899]); a complete series of the Musée des Horreurs, fifty-one large caricatures from 1899-1900 attacking prominent government officials, dreyfusards, and Jews; the antidreyfusard periodicals La Libre Parole, Psst...!, La Croix, and Le Pilori; La France juive (Paris: Librairie Blériot, 2nd edition, 1892), by antidreyfusard and anti-Semite Edouard Drumont; Lettre à la jeunesse by Emile Zola and originally published in Le Figaro, December 12, 1897 (Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1897); "J'Accuse...!," Émile Zola's open letter to President Félix Faure published in L'Aurore on January 13, 1898, accusing, above all, Faure for the injustice of Dreyfus' fate.

Finding aid:

http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/dreyfus/

[0260j] Page H. Belcher Collection, 1951-1972 (bulk 1951-1972)

Location: Congressional Archives, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma, 630 Parrington Oval, Room 101, Norman, OK 73019

Description: Page Henry Belcher (1899-1980) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma (1953-1973). Series 1: 82nd Congress, contains files on Thomas G. Abernethy, Atlantic Union, Lyle H. Boren, Frank T. Bow, Charles F. Brannan, Harry Flood Byrd, Communism, Equal Rights Amendment, F. Edward Hébert, Clare E. Hoffman, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, William Langer, Douglas MacArthur, Noah M. Mason, Burnet R. Maybank, McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, Joseph McCarthy, Richard M. Nixon, John E. Rankin, Robert Taft, Taft-Hartley Law, Townsend Plan, James E. Van Zandt, and Burton K. Wheeler. Series 2: 83rd Congress, contains files on Thomas G. Abernethy; anti-U.N. literature; Ezra Taft Benson; Bricker Amendment on Treaty-making Powers of the United Nations; Harry F. Byrd; Homer E. Capehart; Communism; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Equal Rights Amendment; Homer Ferguson; fluoridation of water; Genocide Convention, 1954; Billy Graham; Billy James Hargis and tax-exempt status of Christian Echoes National Ministry; Clare Eugene Hoffman; Un-American Activities House Committee; William Langer; Joseph McCarthy; Wright Patman; Pledge of Allegiance; Pro-America/Tulsa Chapter; Reed-Dirksen Amendment; Republican National Committee (U.S.); segregation; Taft-Hartley Act; Taft-Hartley Law; Townsend Plan; U.N.E.S.C.O.; and United Nations. Series 3: 84th Congress, contains files on Atlantic Union resolution; Bow resolution; Bricker Amendment; civil rights; Communism; communists in defense plants; Equal Rights Amendment; Gwinn Amendment; Pro-America Group; Richard Nixon; segregation; States Rights Bill, 1955-1956; States Rights; Status of Forces treaty; Taft-Hartley Act; Townsend Plan; Un-American Activities Committee; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.); and Water Fluoridation. Series 4: 85th Congress, contains files on aid to education; Bricker Amendment; Byrd-Bridges Amendment; Campaign for the Forty-eight States; civil rights; Communism; Communists in U. S. government; Crusade for Freedom - Radio Free Europe; cut off of funds to schools not obeying Supreme Court decision on segregation; Equal Rights Amendment; fluoridation; William S. Girard, 1957 (G.I. accused of murder in Japan); Barry Goldwater; Billy Graham; Billy James Hargis; integration; Jenner Bill; Little Rock School Integration; Joseph McCarthy; Panama Canal; parochial school aid; pledge of allegiance; pornography; Quemoy-Matsu; right-to-work laws; segregation; Socialism; States Rights; Status of Forces Treaty; Totalitarianism; and Townsend Plan. Series 5: 86th Congress, contains files on birth control; Bricker Amendment; Civil Rights; Cold War; Communism; communists; Connally Amendment on International Court Jurisdiction; Equal Rights Amendment; Fluoridation; Goldwater for president; Billy Graham; gun control; H.U.A.C. and National Council of Churches; Billy James Hargis; integration; McCarran-Walter Act; Monroe Doctrine; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; right-to-work; separation of church and state; and Townsend Plan. Series 6: 87th Congress, contains files on abortions; aid to education; church/state relations; Cinema Educational Guild and Operation Abolition; civil rights; Communism; communist mail; Communists; Connally amendment; disarmament; fluoridation; Freedom Academy; Barry Goldwater; gun control; John Birch Society; Katanga; Liberty Amendment; loyalty oath; Joseph McCarthy; William Miller; Mississippi Crisis General, 1962; National Council of Churches; National Indignation Convention; Post Office - Departmental - Communist Propaganda and Obscene Materials; prayer in schools; private school aid; right-to-work; right-to-work laws; School integration; segregation; socialized medicine; states' rights; Taft-Hartley; U.N.E.S.C.O.; U.N., U.S. Withdrawal; Un-American Activities - Legislative - Communist Literature in Mails; Un-American Activities Committee; Voice of America; Edwin A. Walker; World Court; Young Americans for Freedom; Young Republicans; and Yugoslav pilot training. Series 7: 88th Congress, contains files on Aid to Education: Private and Parochial Schools; Becker Amendment; Bible reading; Birth control; Captive Nations Day; Cinema Educational Guild; civil rights; Civil Rights Bill; Committee for the Monroe Doctrine; Communism; Communists; Connally Amendment; Equal Rights Amendment; Fairness Doctrine; Federal Communications Commission - Departmental - Fairness Doctrine; fluoridation; forced integration; Barry Goldwater; Goldwater campaign; gun control; Billy James Hargis; Alger Hiss; J. Edgar Hoover; integration; Liberty Amendment to Repeal Income Tax; Liberty Lobby; Carl McIntire; Carl McIntire Program; National Council of Churches; Richard Nixon; Operation Water Moccasin; Otto Otepka; Panama Canal; Prayer and Bible reading in schools and Under God' in pledge of allegiance; prayer in schools; right-to-work; right-to-work laws; Segregation; socialism; States rights; Taft-Hartley; Test Ban Treaty; U.N.E.S.C.O.; Un-American Activities Committee; and George Wallace. Series 8: 89th Congress, contains files on aid to private and parochial schools; American Nazis; Americans for Constitutional Action; arms control; busing; Busing Bill; Christian Crusade; civil rights; Communism; Communists; Fairness Doctrine; fluoridation; Genocide Treaty; gun control; Billy James Hargis; J. Edgar Hoover; John Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan; Liberty Lobby; National Council of Churches; Nazis; Richard Nixon; Otto Otepka; Panama Canal; Panama Canal Treaties; prayer and bible reading in school; prayer in schools; private and parochial school aid; Racial discrimination; Racism; Ronald Reagan; right-to-work; states' rights; Taft-Hartley; Taft-Hartley Repeal of 14-B; Un-American Activities Committee; Voting Rights Bill; and George Wallace. Series 9: 90th Congress, contains files on busing; Christian Crusade; civil rights; Civil Rights Bill; Communism; Communists; Communists as teachers; Communists in Defense Plants; fluoridation; Ford Foundation; Freedom Academy; Genocide Treaty; gun control; Richard Nixon; Otto Otepka; Panama Canal; pornography; right-to-work; right-to-work laws; George Lincoln Rockwell; subversives in government; Un-American Activities Committee; and George Wallace. Series 10: 91st Congress, contains files on Americans for Constitutional Action; Bible reading and prayer in schools and in space; Busing; Christian Crusade; Communism; Billy James Hargis (American Christian College, Christian Crusade, Communism); Communists; fluoridation; Ford Foundation; Genocide Treaty; gun control; "In God We Trust"; Oral Roberts University; Otto Otepka; Panama Canal; pornography; prayer in schools; Republican National Committee; Right-to-Work Committee; right-to-work laws; school integration; Tulsa school desegregation; Voting rights and school integration; and World Council of Churches. Series 11: 92nd Congress, contains files on abortion; Americans for Constitutional Action; Atlantic Union resolution; Bible reading; busing; Civil Rights; Communism; Communists; Genocide Treaty; gun control; Billy James Hargis; J. Edgar Hoover; Patrick J. Hurley; National Council of Churches; Oral Roberts University; Panama Canal; Pornography; Pro-America; right-to-work; Right-to-Work Committee; William Shockley; Tulsa school desegregation; George Wallace shooting; and Young Americans for Freedom.

Finding aid:

http://cacarchives.ou.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=132&q=

[0261] Don Belding Papers, 1872-1987 and undated, Coll. S75.1

Location: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University Libraries, 15th & Detroit, Box 41041, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1041

Description: The collection consists of personal and business records generated by the activities of Don Belding (1897-1969), an advertising executive and co-founder, with Dr. Kenneth Wells and financier E. F. Hutton, of Freedoms Foundation. The series Correspondence contains files on Americanism Educational League, Milton Eisenhower, Reverend James Fifield, Patrick J. Frawley, Improved Order of Red Men, Admiral Arthur Radford, and Edward Rickenbacker. The series Freedoms Foundation contains files on American Economic Foundation and Council for Secondary Education, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Eisenhower, Edgar J. Hoover, and Adm. Felix Stump. The series General Files contains files on Moral Re-Armament (MRA), National Committee for Economic Freedom, and Richard Nixon.

Websites with information:

http://www.swco.ttu.edu/Guide/b.htm

Finding aid:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00241/tsw-00241.html

[0262] The Papers of (Harold) Montgomery Belgion, 1891-1980, GBR/0014/BLGN

Location: Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS, United Kingdom

Description: Belgion (1892-1973) was a journalist and literary critic. During his life his political sympathies moved from Left to Right and in the closing years of his life his outlook was that of the extreme right wing of the Conservative Party. He was a member of the mainly Parliamentary Monday Club. Correspondents include Harry Elmer Barnes; Frank Chodorov; Grand-Admiral Dönitz; T.S. Eliot; Major-General J.F.C. Fuller; Captain Russell Grenfell, R.N.; Right Hon. Lord Hankey; Dr. Fritz Hesse; Francis Neilson; Rev. Edmund A. Opitz; Ezra Pound; Henry Regnery; F.J.P. Veale; and F.A. Voigt.

Finding aids:

http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FBLGN

http://131.111.161.94/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FBLGN

[0262a] David Belin Jewish Outreach Papers, 1970-1999 (bulk 1979-1998)

Location: Special Collections Library, Labadie Collection, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library (South), 913 S. University Avenue, Office/Gallery 7th Floor; Reading Room 8th Floor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190