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

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/dove/scripts/viewitems.php

Finding aid:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu02095.xml

[0359] Anne McCarty Braden papers, 1920s-2006 (bulk 1970s-2006)

Location: University Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292

Description: Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) was a civil rights activist. Files on Anti-Klan; "Bulwark of Segregation" (Braden) [online at http://www.crmvet.org/info/64_braden_huac-r.pdf]; Ramsey Clark on Lyndon LaRouche; Greensboro Massacre; Mississippi Sovereignty Commission; School desegregation; Carol Smith and LaRouche; Clarence Thomas; Thoughts on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; Bill Wilkinson and KKK; and the following booklets: "Neo-Nazi Skinheads and Youth Information packet" (Atlanta, GA: Center for Democratic Renewal, [1990]); "Background report on Racist and Far-right organizing in the Pacific NW" (Atlanta, GA: Center for Democratic Renewal, [1988]); "When hate groups come to town" (Atlanta, GA: Center for Democratic Renewal, ©2002); "The epidemic of the hangman's noose" (Atlanta, GA: Center for Democratic Renewal, 2002); and "The National Alliance: A House Divided/Unmasking the Right" (Atlanta, GA: Center for Democratic Renewal, 2002).

Websites with information:

http://louisville.edu/library/archives/findingaids

http://louisville.libguides.com/content.php?pid=42774&sid=315131

http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/facet/source_s?catalog_facet.offset=180&catalog_facet.prefix=B&catalog_facet.sor

t=index

Finding aids:

http://louisville.edu/library/archives/findingaids/braden.html

http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt75x63b0522/guide

http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt75x63b0522/text

https://nyx.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt75x63b0522

[0359a] Carl and Anne Braden Papers, 1928-2006, Mss 6, etc.

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

Description: Papers of Louisville, Kentucky, civil rights activists Carl and Anne Braden, primarily documenting their work with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), 1954-1974, and the Social Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), 1974-2006. Series: 1: Original Collection. Subseries: Anne and Carl Braden Files. Sub-subseries: Southern Conference Educational Fund Files, 1954-1972. 1954-1966. Subject Files, contains files on John Birch Society, Civil rights and liberties, Civil Rights bills, Edward R. Fields, John T. Flynn, Goldwater campaign, Highlander Folk School and Highlander Center, House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), National Committee to Abolish HUAC, David Lawrence, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957-1958, Race Relations, Sedition laws, 1955-1958. Sub-subseries: Southern Conference Educational Fund Files, 1954-1972. 1966-1973. Subject Files, contains files on James Eastland, Highlander Folk School, House Un-American Activities Committee, Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee, Fulton Lewis, and Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee. Subseries: James Dombrowski Files. Sub-subseries: Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) Files, 1938-1949, contains correspondence with T. G. Bilbo. Sub-subseries: Southern Conference Educational Fund Files, 1942-1967, contains files on Attacks on SCEF, James Eastland, Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee report, and National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, "Bulwark of Segregation," 1964-1965 [online at http://www.crmvet.org/info/64_braden_huac-r.pdf]. Series: 2: 2007 Additions. Subseries: Anne and Carl Braden Files. Sub-subseries: Southern Conference Educational Fund Files, 1954-1985. 1966-1973. Subject Files, contains files on Busing, Pros and cons, Civil rights movements, Red-baiting attacks, John Birch Society, and National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). Sub-subseries: Southern Organizing Committee, 1973-2006. Subject Files, contains files on Abortion, Anti-Communism, Chilean coup, Apartheid, Robert Bork, Christic Institute, Civil rights, David Duke, Newt Gingrich, Alger Hiss, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon LaRouche, Lynching, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, National Anti-Klan Network, "New" red-baiting, New Right, Ronald Reagan, and George Wallace.

Reference:

Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt and Carolyn J. Mattern, Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: A Guide (Madison: The Society, 1983); Jeffrey H. Caufield, General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New Evidence of a Radical-Right Conspiracy (Moreland Press, 2015).

Websites with information:

http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_000112_000000_0000/0012_000112_000000_0000.xml;quer

y=MS.0425;brand=default

Finding aid:

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00006

[0359b] Carl and Anne Braden Papers, 1947-1967, MS.0425

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

Description: Carl Braden (1914-1975) and Anne Braden (1924-2006) were civil rights workers with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, news letters, financial records, mailing lists, and court records relating to their work with the SCEF and the civil rights program in general. Files on civil rights, Civil Rights Bill, Civil Rights Legislation, Sen. James O. Eastland - Income and Job Security Committee, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Barry Goldwater, HUAC - House Un-American Activities Committee, Abolition of, HUAC - Anti-HUAC Pamphlets, Highlander Folk School, Koinonia Farm, Americus, Georgia, Ku Klux Klan, Race Relations, SCEF, Attacks on Southern Conference Educational Fund, SCEF, Accused Communist Clippings, Sedition Bill, 1958, and Segregation Propaganda.

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_000112_000000_0000/0012_000112_000000_0000.xml;query=MS.0425;brand=default

[0360] Spruille Braden papers, 1903-1977, MS#0143

Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library, 6th Floor, Columbia University, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027

Description: Braden (1894-1978) was a diplomat in numerous Latin American countries and was particularly well known for his role as the American Representative to the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935-1939, and for his opposition to the Perón regime in Argentina in the 1940s. Correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, documents, photographs, printed material, and audio visual material, primarily relating to Braden's career as a diplomat. Also included are files from his tenure as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, 1945-1947. The numerous scrapbooks in the collection contain clippings, photographs, and invitations. Series I: Correspondence and Catalogued Items, contains correspondence with James L. Buckley, William F. Buckley, Jr., James F. Byrnes, Dwight David Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Joseph C. Grew, John Edgar Hoover, Arthur Bliss Lane, Ronald Reagan, Edward Rickenbacker, and Robert Welch.

Websites with information:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079451/

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079451

[0361] Ralph Bradford Papers, 1943-1978, MS Group 72

Location: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 208 Smathers Library, 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611-7005

Description: Ralph Bradford was a lecturer, writer, and business organization consultant. Includes autograph and typed manuscripts, galley proofs, and published copies of writing by Bradford. The later writings are articles published in The Freeman (1974-78), a libertarian publication of the Foundation for Economic Education (Irving-on-Hudson, NY).

Websites with information:

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browset.htm

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browseu_ms.htm

Finding aid:

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/Bradford.htm

[0362] Kenneth Bradley Collection, 1934-1987 (bulk 1934 to 1972), MS 88-29

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068

Description: Case files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice constitute this collection. The files mainly consist of evidentiary findings concerning Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita and his activities, including his involvement in the Christian Missionary Alliance. In 1942, Winrod was indicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for conspiracy to violate the U.S. Code regarding seditious activities. An evangelist, author, publisher and political activist, Winrod and his organization, Defenders of the Christian Faith, promoted his advocacy of anti-Semitism, anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism, racial segregation, creationism, and Prohibition. His magazine The Defender was anti-Semitic, anti-administration, and anti-British. Letters and memos from J. Edgar Hoover. Copies of The Defender Magazine; the Missionary Messenger; Western Voice; The Philip Dru Case, by Gerald Winrod (1952), which tries to prove that all the woes in American politics are due to a Jewish-Communist plot and the U.S. presidents are tools used by the Communists; and Counter Attack, a publication of the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism. Photocopies of California Weckruf (Los Angeles) and The Defender Magazine. Materials relating to Howard Victor Broenstrupp, Ida Mae Cooper, Lawrence Dennis, Elizabeth Eloise Dilling and her publications "The Red Network" and "The Roosevelt Red Record," Ernest Frederick Elmhurst, E.J. Garner, German American Bund, Adolf Hitler, Dr. Emanuel M. Josephson, William Ernest Kullgren, Fritz Kuhn, Joseph E. McWilliams, Protestant War Veterans, The Revealer, Eugene Nelson Sanctuary, Edward James Smythe, Senator Robert A. Taft, U. S. vs. Gerald B. Winrod et. al., United States vs. McWilliams et. al., George Sylvester Viereck, and Volksbund Fuer Dos Deutschtum in Ausland (People's Society for Germanium Abroad, V. D. A.).

Reference:

Seth Bate, "Defending the Defender: Gerald Winrod and the Great Sedition Trial," Fairmount Folio: Journal of History (Wichita State University) 18 (2018): 36-57, http://journals.wichita.edu/index.php/ff/article/viewFile/192/198.

Websites with information:

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/msub-b.html

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol3.html

http://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/74

Finding aids:

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/pdf/88-29-a.pdf

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/88-29/88-29-A.HTML

[0363] Thomas Brady, Sr. Collection of Conservative Materials, 1940-1962, Coll 404

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299

Description: Thomas A. Brady (1902-1964) was a professor and administrator at the University of Missouri. The collection contains conservative correspondence, pamphlets, and publications sent to Brady by individuals and conservative groups. Groups include the Theocratic Party, The Cuban Newsletter by the Democratic Revolutionary Front, The Church of God, The Protestant War Veterans of the United States, The Vigilantes, Union Research Institute, and the publication Women's Voice.

Websites with information:

http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/newly-available-collection-thomas-brady-sr-collection-of-conservative-materials/

Finding aid:

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv93695

[0364] Carl P. Brannin Papers, 1904-1987, AR285

Location: Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497

Description: Brannin (1888-1985), a journalist, was active in politics, labor union organizing, and the civil rights movement. He was a charter member of the American Civil Liberties Union and an organizer of the Dallas Civil Liberties Union. Brannin's papers contain correspondence, minutes, financial records, speeches, newspaper clippings, newsletters, constitutions, reports, rosters, press releases, notes, and miscellaneous printed material. Contains files on Harry Elmer Barnes, J. Edgar Hoover, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the John Birch Society, "Operation Abolition" (an anti-Communist film produced by the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1961), and right-wing groups.

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00118/arl-00118.html

[0364a] Irving Brant Papers, 1910-1977 (bulk 1938-1975), MSS13656

Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

Description: Irving Brant (1885-1976) was an author, historian, and newspaper editor. Correspondence, memoranda, writings and speeches, research notes, and other papers reflecting Brant's career with various newspapers, in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a playwright, and his interest in James Madison. The series General Correspondence, 1901-1977, contains files on American Mercury, Charles A. Beard, William Edgar Borah, Virginius Dabney, James J. Kilpatrick, National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, Ezra Pound, Reader's Digest, and Oswald Garrison Villard.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011060

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011060.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011060.pdf

[0365] Boris Brasol Papers, 1919-1954, MSS13672

Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

Description: Boris Brasol (1885-1963) was a Russian author and critic, criminologist, and lawyer, known for the creation and dissemination of an American edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was a member of the Russian ultra-conservative monarchist organization Black Hundreds. Correspondence, speeches, drafts and typescripts, notes, memoranda, and other material relating to Russia and the Soviet Union and to Brasol's writings and work as a criminologist and literary critic. Subjects include the 1920s libel suit instituted by Herman Bernstein against Henry Ford for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Reference:

Eugene Pivovarov, "The Papers of Boris Leo Brasol and the Pushkin Society in America in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress," Journal of American Ethnic History 23.1 (Fall 2003): 85-92; Richard Spence, "The Tsar's Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L'vovich Brasol, 1910-1960. Part I: Beilis, the Protocols, and Henry Ford," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4.1 (June 2012): 199-220, http://jsantisemitism.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsars-Other-Lieutenent.pdf; Richard Spence, "The Tsar's Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L'vovich Brasol, 1910-1960. Part II: White Russians, Nazis, and the Blue Lamoo," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4.2 (Dec. 2012): 679-706, http://jsantisemitism.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsars-Other-Lieutenant.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011021

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011021.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011021.pdf

http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011021.pdf

[0366] Herbert M. Bratter Collection, 1890s-1975, AC0137

Location: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Description: Herbert Max Bratter (1900-1976) was an economic and financial specialist. The papers document the working files and home movies of Bratter and his professional career. The materials consist of biographical materials (academic and military records), press releases, newspaper clippings; daily, weekly and monthly releases from government agencies; clippings from the Congressional Record on monetary matters such as silver and gold; topical files covering a range of monetary subjects; publications, including writings about the Bretton Woods Conference, scrapbooks, and moving images including home movies. Files on Bimetallism, Goods or Gold? The Meaning of the Bretton Woods Agreement, by Robert Boothby (1944), William E. Borah, Bretton Woods Agreement Act (debates), Bretton Woods Conference, Reverend Charles E. Coughlin, Martin Dies, Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy, After Bretton Woods--What? by Lionel D. Edie (1944), Elgin Groseclose, Senator Patrick McCarran, Raymond Moley, James P. Warburg, and Burton K. Wheeler.

Finding aids:

http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0137.pdf

http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/d8137.htm

[0367] Michael Braver Collection of Americanist material, 1960-1979, Collection Number 1585

Location: Department of Special Collections, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Description: Michael Bruce Braver (1946- ) is a clinical psychologist. Collection consists of over 300 speeches by Americanist right-wing extremist spokesmen on reel to reel and cassette tapes, as well as Americanist journals, books, pamphlets, booklets, and fugitive materials. The series Major Journals and Newsletters contains copies of Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC) Newsletter, Christian Crusade (Annual), Christian Crusade Weekly, Christian Vanguard (New Christian Crusade Church), Freedom, The Independent American (Littleton, CO), John Birch Society Bulletin, Liberty Letter, Dr. McBirnie's Newsletter, National Chronicle, Report on Freedom, Review of the News, and The Utah Independent; reprints from Review of the News and associated Birch Society pamphlets (including works by Gary Allen, Tom Anderson, Ezra Taft Benson, Samuel Blumenfeld, Edward Griffin, John F. McManus, (Hon.) John Schmitz, George Schuyler, Alan Stang, and Robert Welch); and booklets by Dr. Wesley A. Swift. The series Assorted Fugitive Materials and Limited Issues of Magazines contains announcements, pamphlets, bulletins, internal memos, and transcripts by A.C.T. (Association of Concerned Taxpayers), America First (Liberty Lobby), American Intelligence Agency, Americanism Educational League: Buena Park, California, American Opinion Bookstore Booknews, American Opinion, Americans for Constitutional Action (including a work by Adm. Ben Moreell), The Ayn Rand Letter, Caxton Books Publications (Announcements featuring Jo Hindman's three books: Terrible 1313 Revisited; Blame Metro; and The Metrocrats. Also a Chart of the Metro Conspiracy dated June 1972), Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Bulletin/Newsletter, Christian Crusade (Fact Files on Billy James Hargis, David Noebel, and Jess Pedigo), Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc. and Moral Advance, Committee To Restore the Constitution, Family Heritage Series, FiPo (Fire and Police Research Association of Los Angeles), Gary Allen Communications, H.O.W. (Happiness of Womanhood), John Birch Society, Libertarian Party, Liberty Lobby, The Minutemen, National Educator, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., National Socialist White Peoples Party, The Network (of Patriotic Letter Writers), New Christian Crusade Church (letters from James K. Warner), New England Rally for God, Family, and Country, Objectivist Book Service, Inc. Reading List, Poor Richard's Bookshop, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Liberty Books for Patriots, Tax Fax, Tax Rebellion Committee, T.A.C.T. (Truth About Civil Turmoil) (Charles Smith), Voice of Americanism (including How the Communists Plan Race War), Washington Observer Newsletter, and We the People. The series Transcripts Of Speeches contains transcripts of speeches by Ezra Taft Benson, Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntire, Robert Morris, and Gen. Edwin Walker. The series Books By Americanist Authors contains works by Gary Allen, Phoebe Courtney, Billy James Hargis, Fred Schwarz, Alan Stang, Willis Stone, John Stormer, and Robert Welch. The series Critical and Academic Analyses of Americanism contains Hooded Americanism, by David Chalmers (Chicago, Quandrangle 1968); The Dixon Line: An Anti-Extremist Newsletter; Group Research Report; and Key Influences in the American Right, by Ferdinand Solara (Denver, Polifax Press, 1972). The series Cassette Tapes contains tapes of speeches by Larry Abraham, Gary Allen, Tom Anderson, Maj. Edgar Bundy, Myron Fagan, (Rev.) Kenneth Goff (Soldiers of the Cross), G. Edward Griffin, (Rev.) Billy James Hargis, Walter Judd, David Noebel, Jess Pedigo, Fernando Penebaz, George Lincoln Rockwell, (Hon.) John Schmitz, Fred Schwarz, Cleon Skousen, Dan Smoot, Alan Stang, Willis Stone, and Robert Welch. The series Reel to Reel Tapes contains tapes of speeches by Larry Abraham, Gary Allen, Tom Anderson, John Ashbrook, Ezra Taft Benson, Major Edgar C. Bundy (Church League of America), Taylor Caldwell, Frank Capell, Willis Carto, Bertrand L. Comparet, Richard Cotton, (Col.) Curtis Dall, (Fa.) Gommar DePauw, Robert B. DePugh (Minutemen), Elizabeth. Dilling (Soldiers of the Cross), H. du Berrier, Medford Evans (Citizens' Council), Harry T. Everingham (We the People), Reverend Kenneth Goff (Soldiers of the Cross), Edward Griffin, Happiness of Womanhood (H.O.W.), Billy James Hargis with Matt Cvetic, Col. Tom R. Hutton (Ret.) (SPX Research Associates), George Racey Jordan, Walter M.D. Judd, (Dr.) Howard E. Kershner, Matthew Koehl, General Thomas Lane, Martin Larsen, General Curtis LeMay, Florence Fowler Lyons, Stuart McBirnie, (Sen.) Joseph McCarthy, Rev. Carl McIntire, (Gov.) Lester Maddox, Dean Clarence Manion (Manion Forum), Robert Morris, Reverend David Noebel, Revilo P. Oliver, Otto Otepka, (Dr.) Jess Pedigo, (Dr.) Fernando Penabaz, Herbert Philbrick, (Dr.) Daniel Poling, Project Alert (organized by Cleon Skousen), Karl Prussion, (Capt.) Edward V. Rickenbacker, (Maj.) Arch E. Roberts, Rep. John Rousselot, (Rev.) Roussas Rushdoony, (Sen.) John Schmitz, Fred Schwarz, Fred Schlafly, Cleon Skousen, Dan Smoot, Alan Stang, Willis E. Stone, Wm Strube, Felix Stump, TACT Committee, General Edwin Walker, (Former Gov.) George Wallace, Chester Ward, Robert Welch, General C.A. Willoughby, and (Pastor) Richard Wurmbrand.

Websites with information:

http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/261/763117/Social_Movements_Query.pdf

http://guides.library.ucla.edu/loader.php?type=d&id=763117

http://guides.library.ucla.edu/loader.php?type=d&id=763113

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/mss/brav1585.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/dq/kt3k4031dq/files/kt3k4031dq.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3k4031dq/entire_text/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3k4031dq;query=;style=oac4;doc.view=entire_text

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3k4031dq;style=oac4;view=dsc

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3k4031dq&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3k4031dq

[0368] Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Papers, 1867, 1888-1923, 52M3

Location: Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Margaret I. King Building, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039

Description: Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920) served as president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, 1912-1915 and again in 1919. She was second vice-president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, 1913-1914. The collection consists almost entirely of pamphlets, broadsides, leaflets and printed materials which reflect Mrs. Breckinridge's wide range of interest in social and political concerns. The majority of the papers are devoted to women's suffrage issues. Files on anti-suffrage, undated materials, 1915-1918, and birth control, undated materials, 1916-1920.