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

Location: Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Description: The Biographical Vertical File collection is an artificial collection of newspaper and magazine clippings that have been individually donated to the Society, collected by staff, or found in collections. Files on John Caldwell Calhoun, Calvin Coolidge, Everett McKinley Dirksen, Dwight Eisenhower, Spessard L. Holland, J. Edgar Hoover, Walter H. Judd, William F. Knowland, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, William E. & family Miller, Karl E. Mundt, Richard Nixon, Gerald P. Nye, Wright Patman, Ronald Reagan, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Rick Santorum, Robert A. Taft, and Burton K. Wheeler.

Finding aid:

http://www.dchistory.org/uploads/fa/vf01.pdf

[0302] Biography: Homer E. Capehart, 1969-1973, ohrc015 [oral history]

Location: Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory, Indiana University, 400 North Sunrise Drive, Weatherly Hall North, Room 122, Bloomington, IN 47405

Description: This project is composed of interviews regarding Homer E. Capehart and in particular, his political career as a Republican United States senator from the state of Indiana from 1945 to 1963. Includes interviews with Capehart himself and with John W. Bricker. Persons, organizations, and subjects mentioned in the interviews include John W. Bricker, Communism, Dwight David Eisenhower, William E. Jenner, Ku Klux Klan, Clare Boothe Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Joseph R. McCarthy, Robert A. Taft, Sr., and Wendell L. Willkie.

Websites with information:

http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/eadbrowsea.html

Finding aid:

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc015

[0303] Biography Vertical Files

Location: Local History Collection, Genealogy, History & Archives Unit, Fort Worth Library, 500 W. Third St., Fort Worth, TX 76102-7305

Description: Files on Dick Armey, Dwight David Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Richard Milhous Nixon, Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, Lee Harvey Oswald, and John Goodwin Tower.

Websites with information:

http://fortworthtexas.gov/library/info/default.aspx?id=24852

Finding aid:

http://fortworthtexas.gov/library/info/default.aspx?id=5588

[0304] John Birch Society Collection, n.d., SPC 359

Location: The Balch Institute Library and Archives, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Websites with information:

http://discover.hsp.org/Record/hsp.opac.v01-30152/Description#tabnav

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

[0305] [Entry deleted]

[0306] John Birch Society Collection, 1960s

Location: Research Library and Archives, Pasadena Museum of History, 470 W Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91103

Description: The John Birch Society Collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings primarily from the Pasadena Star News and the Los Angeles Times from 1961. Book, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 4th printing, 1961, by Robert Welch. Book [online at https://ia800307.us.archive.org/13/items/TheBlueBook/MicrosoftWord-Document1.pdf], The John Birch Society in California Politics, by Bryan W. Stevens, 1966.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8v986s6/entire_text/

[0307] John Birch Society. Dunn County, ND Records, 1963-1972, Coll. 10720 [sound recordings]

Location: State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives, 612 E. Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58505

Description: The collection consists of 58 sound recordings received by the Dunn County Chapter members for the monthly meetings, correspondence regarding book orders, pamphlets of special interest, and ephemera relating to new publications. The recordings include the John Birch Society Monthly Oral Message by Robert Welch and the John Birch Society Bi-Monthly Oral Message by Robert Welch (various dates, 1967-1970); Alger Hiss Y plus 20 (1968), The Cross & Sickle: The N.C.C. Expose, by Dr. Billy James Hargis (1965), Disarmament and the Phoenix Papers, by Billy James Hargis (1966), I See a Cat, by Tom Anderson, Our Council Speaks: Dr. Revilo Pendleton Oliver (1963), Our Council Speaks: Dr. Slobodan M. Draskovich (1963), and What is the John Birch Society? by Robert Welch and introduction by Rex Westerfield.

Websites with information:

http://history.nd.gov/archives/manuscripts/groupsorganizations.html

http://www.library.nd.gov/statedocs/HistoricalSociety/SHSND_mg.PDF

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/319546468

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-birch-society-of-dunn-county-audio-collection-1960-1969/oclc/319546468

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

Finding aid:

http://history.nd.gov/archives/manuscripts/inventory/10720.html

[0307a] John Birch Society pamphlets, 1928-1990 (bulk 1960-1970), MS.2014.001

Location: John Hay Library University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

Description: The John Birch Society pamphlets consist primarily of pamphlets and reprints of magazine articles that reflect right-wing political views on such issues as the Civil Rights movement, the protests against the war in Vietnam during the 1960's, Communism, drug use, popular music and culture, pornography, race relations, and sex education in American schools. Most were published or reprinted by the John Birch Society. Other pamphlets were published by the American Jewish Committee (a pamphlet regarding Skinheads [Skinheads: Who They Are & What to Do When They Come to Town, by Kenneth S. Stern (New York, American Jewish Committee, 1990), online at http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/Skinheads.pdf]); the Daughters of Saint Paul, a Catholic publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts; Ensign Publishing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, whose publications include works on religion and anti-Communism; and Athanasius Press, created by John H. DeTar, M.D., in order to publish his right-wing political writings.

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/870673968

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-birch-society-pamphlets-1928-1990/oclc/870673968

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=483

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/cluster.php?cluster_id=3

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/index.php

http://libguides.brown.edu/c.php?g=293906

https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b7089008

Finding aids:

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPB-ms2014.001.pdf

http://www.riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2014.001&view=title

[0308] John Birch Society records, 1928-1990 (bulk 1965-1989), Ms.2013.003

Location: Brown University, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St, Box A, Providence, RI 02912

Description: The John Birch Society records include audio-visual material such as audiocassettes, films, filmstrips, phonograph records, reel-to-reel tapes, slides and videocassettes; business records, correspondence, manuscripts, membership lists, office files, publications and subject files. The records also include a great deal of material regarding the Society's campaign against the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties during the 1970's. Also includes printed copies of The Review of the News, The John Birch Bulletin, and American Opinion. Among the many national campaigns that the Society has organized or supported are the campaign to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1960's, The Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOREDE), Promote Our Wonderful Energy Resources (POWER), the Support Your Local Police and Keep Them Independent! (SYLP) campaign, whose purpose was to oppose any state or federal control of local police departments, especially with regard to enforcing civil rights laws; Truth about Civil Turmoil (TACT), To Restore American Independence Now (TRAIN), Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM), and the National Right to Work Committee, which opposes compulsory union membership as a condition of employment. Series 7, Panama Canal Treaty campaign, 1970-1982. Subseries B, Publications and newspaper clippings, 1974-1982, consists chiefly of newspaper clippings, circa 1975, and other published materials regarding Panama and the Panama Canal Treaties, including copies of U.S. News and World Report, the Panama Canal Information Digest, the Alan Stang Report, American Opinion, the Birch Log, and the TRIM Bulletin. Series 8, Publications, 1928-1989, contains writings by Gary Allen, Ezra Taft Benson, Samuel L. Blumenfeld, Frank A. Capell, Jimmy Carter, William Henry Chamberlin, Stillwell John Conner, Ed Dieckmann, S.M. Draskovich, James J. Drummey, William E. Dunham, Dr. John Dunn, Sen. James O. Eastland, Rev. Francis E. Fenton, James Forman, John B. Gest, William B. Guidry, David Emerson Gumaer, Gary Handy, Thomas J. Hass, Tom Hayden, Timothy R. Heinan, William P. Hoar, Edward Hunter, William F. Jasper, James Kennedy, Andrew Lane, Robert W. Lee, Lawrence P. McDonald, William H. McIlhany, John F. McManus, Joseph Mehrten, Ralph Nader, Richard Nuccio, Ronald Reagan, John Rees, Bill Richardson, John H. Rousselot, John C. Satterfield, Robert Scheuttinger, Hans Sennholz, W. Cleon Skousen, Dan Smoot, Alan Stang, Floyd George Steele, Sen. Steven D. Symms, Charles Callan Tansill, James B. Utt, Harold Lord Varney, Willard S. Voit, George C. Wallace, and Wallis W. Wood. Series 9, Subject files, 1935-1990, contains files on American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; American Volunteer Groups: announcement regarding their seminar on counter-revolutionary warfare, 1971; America's Future, Inc.; Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, Prosperity (TFP); Carto and Liberty Lobby; Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights; The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society, by W. Cleon Skousen; Nord Davis; George C. Wallace newsletter and George Wallace Album; Barry Goldwater; D.B. Lewis; Liberty Lobby; Limited government; Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOCREDE); National Decency Reporter; National Right to Work Committee; New England Rally; Newspaper clippings on John Birch Society (JBS), Robert Welch, flag abuse, immigration, etc.; None Dare Call It Conspiracy; Posse Comitatus; Prayer in Schools (Warren); Willis Stone; Strom Thurmond reports to the people; Support Your Local Police; Truth About Civil Turmoil (TACT); To Restore American Independence Now (TRAIN); Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM); Think Tanks; John Wayne; and A.C. Wedemeyer.

Websites with information:

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/index.php

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/cluster.php?cluster_id=3

http://libguides.brown.edu/c.php?g=293906

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/

http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=174

http://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/o?SEARCH=ocn122623389

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

http://libguides.brown.edu/content.php?pid=388976

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2499371~S5

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2499371~S7

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122623389

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-birch-society-records-1928-1990/oclc/122623389

Finding aids:

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPB-ms2013.003.pdf

http://www.riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2013.003&view=title

[0309] John Birch Society Records, 1964-1965, Mss 0034-104

Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424

Description: The collection consists of three pamphlets and two newsletters published by or for the John Birch Society. The pamphlets are each dated between 1964 and 1965. The documents highlight the society's belief in anti-Communism. One pamphlet discusses a meeting of the John Birch Society in Charleston, S.C., on January 21, 1965.

Websites with information:

http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1394981

http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/

http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

[0310] John Birch Society records, 1966, SC-424

Location: American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

Description: Anti-Semitic information and brochures published by the John Birch Society and compiled by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Websites with information:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/catalog/Record/vtls000002398

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/data/696628690

http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1967_19_01_00_acq.pdf

[0311] John Birch Society Records

Location: American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011

Description: Includes John Birch Society publications (American Opinion and society bulletins, 1958-1964). Unprocessed as of April 2010.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=611930

[0312] John Birch Society sound recordings collection, circa 1953-1971, Coll. 1261 [sound recordings]

Location: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322

Description: The collection contains sound recordings collected by John Birch's brother Ellis Birch, who was briefly a member the John Birch Society in Macon, Georgia, leaving the organization around 1963. Included in the collection are reel-to-reel tapes produced by the John Birch Society's public relations department; recordings of presentations, interviews, and speeches by members or on topics relevant to the organization's interests; and speeches by members of other conservative organizations including the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Crusade, the Congress of Freedom, and the Church League of America. Many are recordings of The John Birch Society Report, a 15-minute radio program that began on March 6, 1966. Subjects include Air Force Manual Controversy, Brainwashing, Communism, Communist Party, Council on Foreign Relations, Cuba, Education for American Security (Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois, August-September 1960), Fluoridation, J. Edgar Hoover, The Illuminati, New England Rally for God, Family, and Country, Operation Water Moccasin, Panama Canal, Rhodesia, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Supreme Court, United Nations, and the Vietnam War. Recordings of Gary Allen, Thomas J. Anderson, Ezra Taft Benson, Dr. George S. Benson, Reed A. Benson, Herbert Birch, Samuel L. Blumenfeld, Pat Boone, Dr. Anthony Bouscaren, Major Edgar C. Bundy, Senator Harry Byrd, "Communism on the Map," "Communist Encirclement," Martin Dies, Dr. Bella V. Dodd, Hilaire du Berrier, Myron C. Fagan, Colonel Victor J. Fox (Robert A. Winston), Dr. Kenneth Goff, Barry Goldwater, G. Edward Griffin, Dr. Billy James Hargis, Edward Hunter, The John Birch Society Report, Major George Racey Jordan, Dr. Walter H. Judd, Carl McIntire, Dean Manion, Dean Manion forums, Luis V. Manrara, Dr. Robert Morris, Dr. Revilo Oliver, Leonard Patterson, Herbert Philbrick, Karl Prussion, Leonard E. Read, Ronald Reagan, Dr. E. Merrill Root, John H. Rousselot, Fred Schlafly, John G. Schmitz, Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, W. Cleon Skousen, Dan Smoot, Robert B. Thieme, Jr., Senator Strom Thurmond, "The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour," General Edwin A. Walker, and Robert Welch.

Websites with information:

https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/titles/B/?page=6

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/847528282

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/birch1261/

https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/birch1261/

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/birch1261/printable/

[0313] Leon Milton Birkhead Papers, 1893-1980 (bulk 1908-1955), K0280

Location: The State Historical Society of Missouri, Research Center-Kansas City, 302 Newcomb Hall, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5123 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Description: In 1917, Reverend Leon Milton Birkhead (1885-1954) moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he began more than twenty years of service to All Souls Unitarian Church. In 1935, Birkhead traveled to Germany, where he became alarmed at the influence of Nazism there and in the United States. He resigned from All Souls in 1939 to begin the Friends of Democracy, an "anti-propaganda" organization whose purpose was to expose hate-based groups during World War II and the McCarthy Era. Birkhead moved the Friends of Democracy operation to New York City in 1939. The papers contain Friends of Democracy publications - Joe Kamp: Peddler of Propaganda and Hero of the Pro-Fascists, ca. 1944; The Case Against the McCormick-Patterson Press, 1945; The Smear Terror, by John T. Flynn; response in newsletter of Federation to Fight Fascism, 1947; Reports - George Armstrong Foundation, 1947-1948; Report - "The Pattern of McCarthyism," 1950; Closer Ups - Upton Close's personal newsletter, April 6, 1950, June 26, 1950; Radio scripts - Upton Close broadcasts, April 30, 1950, May 28, 1950; Report - George S. Benson, 1950; The Defender Magazine, printed materials, December 1951, June 1953; The Cross and the Flag - publication of the Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1951-1952; Economic Council Letter, Economic Council Review of Books, 1952; Correspondence, reports, clipping - Henry Darlington and John Beaty book "The Iron Curtain over America," 1952; McCarthyism: The Fight for America, 1952; Women's Voice (anti-Semitic), November 27, 1952; Report - National Patrick Henry Organization, 1952; "action outline" for the Green Mountain Rifleman, 1954; Printed material, handbook - National Renaissance Party (anti-Semitic), ca. 1953; Report, program, guest list - Dr. J.B. Matthews Dinner, February 13, 1953; Newsletter - The Political Reporter (anti-Communist, anti-Semitic), November 1953; Newsletters - Elizabeth Dilling (anti-Communist, anti-Semitic), November-December 1953; Correspondence, printed materials - Christian Anti-Jewish Party, 1953; Newsletters of the Citizens' Protective Association - "The White Sentinel" and "The Kiss of Death," 1953; National Republic, March, April, September 1953; Independence Magazine - pro-McCarthy, February 1954; Report - "Patriots for McCarthy" rally, August 27, 1954; and Seating list - Roy M. Cohn Testimonial Dinner, July 28, 1954.

Finding aids:

http://shs.umsystem.edu/kansascity/manuscripts/k0280.pdf

http://www.umkc.edu/whmckc/collections/IKC0280.HTM

http://www.umkc.edu/whmckc/collections/INVTRY/KC0280.pdf

[0314] Birmingham, Ala. Law Department, Civil Rights Files, 1941-1981 (bulk 1963-1972), AR987

Location: Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Central Library, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: Office files and court papers relating to civil rights demonstrations, pornography, prostitution, voting rights and civil rights leader Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth. Some police reports detail surveillance of white supremacists.

Websites with information:

http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/collections.aspx?q=6

https://encore.bham.lib.al.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1490380

[0315] Birmingham, Ala. Police Department Surveillance Files, 1947-1980, AR1125 [microfilm]

Location: Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Central Library, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: These files contain memoranda, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, interviews, and other material relating to a variety of individuals, organizations, and events. Individuals and organizations represented in the files include civil rights activists, white supremacists, anti-war protestors, and individuals involved in criminal activities. Events represented in the files include Birmingham-area bombings targeting African Americans, 1950-1965, and civil rights protests. Police surveillance operations were directed at the National States Rights Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the American Nazi Party.

References:

Frank Donner, Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), pp. 312-315; Susan Willoughby Anderson, "The Past on Trial: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Civil Rights Memory and the Remaking of Birmingham" (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008), https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:ea20baa9-4271-4ff6-aeb2-233a18524194; Susan Willoughby Anderson, "The Past on Trial: Birmingham, the Bombing, and Restorative Justice," 96 Cal. L. Rev. 471 (2008), http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.­cgi?article=1182&context=californialawreview; Susan Willoughby Anderson, "The Past on Trial: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing and Civil Rights History" (2010), http://www.americanbar­foundation.org/uploads/cms/documents/anderson_abf_talk_­nov_2010.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/collections.aspx?q=4

http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/aids/AR1969.pdf

[0316] Birmingham Newspaper Clippings Collection, 1930-early 1980s [digital collection]

Location: Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: The clipping files, created by librarians and dating from 1930 to the early 1980s, cover various aspects of Birmingham society, culture, politics, and history-making events. Topics include Alabama State Sovereignty Commission, civil rights, Commission to Preserve the Peace, desegregation, Dixiecrats, integration, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, National States Rights Party, Reverse Freedom Riders, segregation, states rights, J.B. Stoner, George C. Wallace, white citizens councils, and white supremacy.

Websites with information:

http://www.alabamamosaic.org/collections.php

Finding aids:

http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p4017coll2

http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/p4017coll2

[0316a] John Robert Bishop papers, 1951-1977 and undated, MSS 152

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

Description: John Robert Bishop (1926-1985) founded the American Nazi Party - Iowa unit in Davenport in the early 1960s. He was also active in the foundation of another extremist group, the Christian Brotherhood, around the same time. The series American Nazi Party - national papers, 1951-1970 and undated, contains letters, printed material, and objects created by the national unit of the American Nazi Party. Included are several issues of "The Rockwell Report"; the "Intra-Party Confidential Newsletter"; the "Congressional Record"; The Stormtrooper Magazine, published by the American Nazi Party; various pieces of propaganda, mostly anti-Semitic or white supremacist in nature; posters, including two "White Power" posters and a poster for the Conservative Party; and realia, including a Schutzstaffel flag and a Nazi iron cross badge. The series Other papers, 1951-1969 and undated, contains newsletters from foreign organizations and White Power groups, such as the National Citizens Protective Association and the National Socialist White People's Party; and several issues of National Socialist World and Anti-Komintern-Dienst.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/911046181

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-robert-bishop-papers-1951-1977-and-undated/oclc/911046181

Finding aid:

http://www.augustana.edu/SpecialCollections/Resources/Finding%20Aids/MSS152.pdf

[0317] Black Vault Research Center FBI Files / Domestic & Foreign Intelligence [digital collection]