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

Reference:

Guida alle fonti per la storia dei movimenti in Italia (1966-1978), a cura di Marco Grispigni and Leonardo Musci (Roma: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, 2003), http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/­dga/uploads/documents/Str

umenti/Strumenti_CLXII.pdf

Websites with information:

http://editorial.agf-foto.it/controller/archiviostorico

[0024a] Spiro T. Agnew papers, 1953-1977, Coll. 74-10

Location: Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries, Hornbake Library, College Park, MD 20742

Description: Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996) was a Baltimore County (Md.) executive, governor of Maryland, and vice president of the United States. Correspondence; subject files; campaign materials; speeches; press releases; publications; calendars and schedules; news summaries; newspaper clippings; and briefing books. Correspondents include Patrick J. Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Milton S. Eisenhower, Charles McC. Mathias, Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/105768476

http://www.worldcat.org/title/spiro-t-agnew-papers-1953-1977/oclc/105768476

Finding aid:

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1744

[0025] Agrarian Periodicals in the United States, 1920-1960 (Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1976) [microfilm]

Description: This collection consists primarily of newsletters, pamphlets, and official journals of numerous agrarian organizations, published between 1926 and 1975, the vast majority from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Politically, the writings range from pro- and anti-Communist, to pro-Fascist, to pro- and anti-New Deal, from favoring unions and collectivism to opposing them, to anarchist, to mildly liberal or conservative. Includes Farmers Guild News, the organ of the National Farmers Guild, Apr. 1942-Apr. 1949, and Coughlin, Lemke and the Union Party, by Dale Kramer (Minneapolis, Farmers Book Store, 1936).

References:

Eugene A. Engeldinger, "Microform Reviews," Microform & Imaging Review, Volume 13, Issue 3 (Jan. 1984), p. 189, http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/microform-reviews-5GurrQPM6M

Websites with information:

http://images.crl.edu/089.pdf

[0026] Olivia Rossetti Agresti Papers, 1947-1963, YCAL MSS 173

Location: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, P. O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Description: Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875-1960) was the secretary and biographer of David Lubin and an interpreter. The collection contains correspondence between Agresti and Ezra Pound documenting their political and economic views; their opinions of Mussolini and Fascism; and their disagreements on anti-Semitism and the Catholic Church. There are also letters from Dorothy Pound and several other friends of Pound, including T. S. Eliot; a few short pieces by Agresti, including one in defense of Pound; and a transcript of Pound's "Four Steps."

Finding aids:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.agresti

http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/beinecke:agresti/PDF

[0026a] Agrupación Abdala Poster Collection, 1967-1982 [digital collection]

Location: Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, 1300 Memorial Drive, P.O. Box 248214, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-0320

Description: Agrupación Abdala (or Agrupación Estudiantil Abdala) was an anti-Communist organization of primarily Cuban-born students founded in the United States in 1968 with chapters at several colleges and universities around the country. Abdala hosted congresses, marches, and other events to promote their anti-Castro agenda. The posters in this collection advertise these events and Abdala's causes.

Finding aid:

http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cubanHeritage/chc5143/

[0027] James Aho Collection on Right-Wing Extremism, MC 131

Location: Special Collections, The Eli M. Oboler Library, Idaho State University, 850 S 9th Ave, Pocatello, ID 83209

Description: This collection, created by Dr. James Aho, contains clippings, pamphlets, books, newsletters from various right-wing extremist groups, newspaper articles, oral interviews, posters, periodicals, taped sermons, videos pertaining to right wing extremist propaganda, ideology, case studies, and correspondence with convicts, including those on death row, who are serving time for hate crimes.. Sample titles are Know Your Enemies, by Gordon "Jack" Mohr, and Essays of a Klansman, by Louis Beam. The collection also contains Aho's personal correspondence and interviews with members of the right-wing movement in north Idaho during the 1980s and '90s such as Aryan Nation members.

References:

Kelsi Linsenmann, "Aho Collection on Right-Wing Extremism Donated to Special Collections," Between the Lines: The Eli M. Oboler Library Newsletter, Idaho State University, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2013, pp. 1, 3, http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/documents/btl202spring.pdf; "Introduction to the James Aho Collections," CIMA Newsletter, Volume 40, Issue 4 (Fall/Winter 2013), p. 16, http://cimarchivists.­files.wordpress.com/2014/03/cima_newsletter_nov2013.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.isu.edu/library/special/scmc.htm

http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/documents/btl202spring.pdf

http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/blogs/ln/wordpress/?p=3330

http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/blogs/ln/wordpress/?m=201310

[0028] Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals Records, 1952-1970, Coll. 70023

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

Description: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI, 1952-1970) was a State Department-funded, non-profit organization which aimed to resettle 25,000 Chinese intellectual refugees from Hong Kong in the United States. The records consist of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, financial records, and photographs relating to relief work for Chinese refugees. Files on Claire Chennault, Charles Edison, Christopher Emmet, Freedom Fund, J. Peter Grace, Joseph C. Grew, Stanley K. Hornbeck, Walter H. Judd, Arthur B. Lane, Marvin Liebman, Henry Luce, and A. C. Wedemeyer.

Reference:

Madeline Hsu, "Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (1952-1970): The Economic and Symbolic Uses of Refugee Admission" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, TX, . 2014-11-26

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0x0n97kd/entire_text/

[0029] Alabama associations collection, 1850-1984, LPR136

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: This collection contains a wide variety of materials, such as minutes, programs, and histories from various associations throughout the state of Alabama. A folder on the Ku Klux Klan contains a copy of Alabama KKK Newsletter, June 1926, which prints an anti-Catholic poem by Elsie Thornton, "The Pope's Last Call."

Websites with information:

http://www.alabamamoments.alabama.gov/sec46ps.html

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

[0029a] Alabama Citizen's Council Oral History, 1979, MSS.0025 [oral history]

Location: W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama, Box 870266, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0266

Description: A collection of audiotapes and typed transcripts of interviews conducted with former members of the Alabama Citizen's Council from Tuscaloosa, Centerville, Birmingham, and other chapters across Alabama, by students in Dr. Culpepper Clark's SCT 536 class, spring 1979. Interviewees included both men and women and they were asked about the membership and motivations of the organization, reactions to Autherine Lucy's enrollment at the University of Alabama, the role of their chapters during the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, and related topics.

Websites with information:

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/search/all/localbroad:%22Civil%20Rights%20and%20Human%20Rights%22

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=721

Finding aid:

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0003_0000025

[0029b] Alabama Governor administrative assistants' files, 1961-1972 and n.d.

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: Files on Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka; Committee on Constitutional Government- Governor's Advisory Committee; Court decisions and elections - re: racial matters; Defenders of the American Constitution; Discrimination against whites; Federal Reserve System law suit against Federal Reserve System; 14th Amendment - History and background; Gun control; Martin Luther King; Ku Klux Klan; Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace; Liberty Amendment; Liberty Lobby; Manion Forum; Minutemen; Miscegenation case (Florida, 1964) [McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964)]; Miscegenation case (VA, 1966) [Loving v. Commonwealth, 206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78 (1966)]; N.A.A.C.P.; National Conservative Council; National Council of Churches; poll tax; Pornography; Prayer Amendment; Karl Prussion; Race Relations Law Reporter; Racial incidents and violence; Rhodesia; Right to work laws - Taft-Hartley Act 14B; Arch E. Roberts, Major USAF; Segregation; Socialism; Southern Conference Educational Fund; Senator John Sparkman; Governor George C. Wallace - Speeches & opinions; State Sovereignty Commission - Committee for Fundamental Freedoms; States' rights; States' Rights Party of 1948; Test Ban Treaty; Strom Thurmond; United Nations; and Gen. Edwin A. Walker.

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v9010f.htm

[0029c] Alabama Governor administrative files-miscellaneous, 1963-1979

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: Files on 'Abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court'; Bible Reading in Public Schools; Bussing-Regarding Supreme Court Decision (1971) [Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education]; Desegregation --'Fulfilling the Letter and Spirit of the Law: Desegregation of the Nation's Public Schools' [Fulfilling the Letter and the Spirit of the Law: Desegregation of the Nation's Public Schools - a Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C., August, 1976, online at https://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr

12l412.pdf]; Gun Control and Crime; Liberty Lobby-The Story of George C. Wallace; National Review: What Makes Wallace Run? ["What Makes Wallace Run?" by James Jackson Kilpatrick, National Review, April 18, 1967, pp. 400-409]; North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Wallace Speaks Out On The; and States Rights and Peoples Rights, George C. Wallace Speaks Out On.

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v16084f.htm

[0030] Alabama Labor Archives & History, Vertical File

Location: The Alabama Labor Archives and History, 435 S. McDonough Street, Montgomery, Alabama 36104

Description: Vertical files on Right to Work Bill – 1951-1956; Right to Work Bill Newspaper Clippings; Christian American, Attack on Labor Legislation – 1944-1945; H.R. 3020 – Taft-Hartley Act – 1947-1948; Integration/Desegregation – 1942-1956; Right-to-Work Law, Repeal – 1955; Taft-Hartley Anti-Labor Bill; Anti-Labor Legislation; Poll Tax; Child Labor Law; Equal Rights Amendment; and Civil Rights – 1949.

Finding aids:

http://www.alabama-lah.org/downloads/Vertical_File,_Filing_Cabinet_1,_Finding_Aid.doc

http://www.alabama-lah.org/downloads/Vertical_File,_Filing_Cabinet_1,_Finding_Aid.pdf

http://www.alabama-lah.org/downloads/Vertical_File,_Filing_Cabinet_2,_Finding_Aid.doc

http://www.alabama-lah.org/downloads/Vertical_File,_Filing_Cabinet_2,_Finding_Aid.pdf

[0031] Alabama Legislature, Commission to Preserve the Peace, Records, 1962-1975, SG24838 Reels 1-16, and 24 [microfilm]

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: The administrative, reference, and financial records of the Commission to Preserve the Peace, an anti-integration investigative agency. Some of the individuals who are the subject of correspondence and reference file material are J. Edgar Hoover and Karl Prussion. Correspondents include Dan Smoot, Paul Harvey, John R. Rarick, Billy James Hargis, John Stennis, Richard B. Cotten, J. C. Phillips, Opal Tanner White, J. Walter Yeagley, Strom Thurmond, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Edgar C. Bundy, Christian Crusade, Women for Constitutional Government, New Yorkers for the Constitution, Inc., John Birch Society, Indiana Patriotic Publications, American Opinion Library, International Conference of Police Associations, Bob Jones University, U.S. Congress Committee on Un-American Activities, Student Voice, Illinois Seditious Activities Investigation Commission, Conservatives, Inc., Fraternal Order of Police, American Legion, American Security Council, Citizens' Councils of America, Conservative Viewpoint, and the Church League of America. There are also numerous memoranda and informal reports to Governor George C. Wallace.

Websites with information:

http://adahcat.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=9282

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=R000065

http://adahcat.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=596&recCount=10&recPointer=0&bibId=9282

http://archives.state.al.us/whatsnew/open.html

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/data/122498744

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122498744

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122498744

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

http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-1962-1975/oclc/122498744

[0031a] Alabama Pamphlets Collection, 1821-1961, LPR131 [partly digital collection]

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: The collection includes copies of Alfred E. Buck, Condition of the South, The Ku Klux Klan and Organization in Alabama: Speech in the House of Representatives, Feb. 8, 1871 (1871); Houston Cole, Fascism and Mussolini (n.d.); John Witherspoon DuBose, "The Story of Rescue of a Literature," Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine 12 (March 1911): 123-128; 30 pamphlets by J. Thomas Heflin; George Huddleston, The "Share-the-Wealth" Fallacy: Speech before the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 5, 1935 (1936); Josiah C. Nott, The Prospective Influence of the Anglo-Saxon Race on the World: An Address, Delivered before the Eutaw Junto, May 17, 1844 (1844); Josiah C. Nott, Two Lectures, on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races (1844); Samuel F. Rice, Americanism and Southern Rights: An Address Delivered before a Mass Meeting of the American Party of Talladega County, Sept. 6, 1855 (1855); William R. Smith, The American Party, and Its Mission: Speech Delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1855 (1855); John Sparkman, Speech Prepared for Delivery before Annual Luncheon of Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity at the Alabama Bar Convention, Tuscaloosa, Ala., July 19, 1957; John Sparkman, "Notes on the Japanese Peace Treaty," Journal of Public Law, 1 (Spring 1952): 109-116; George C. Wallace, Address of Right worshipful Brother, George C. Wallace, Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Alabama, in Its 141st Annual Communication in Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 21, 1961; John H. Wallace, Let Alabamians Write Their Representatives at Once: The Proposed Amendments to the Federal Constitution, Providing for National Woman's Suffrage and National Prohibition, Obliterate the Democratic Principle of Local Self-Government and Constitute a Dangerous Encroachment upon the Sovereignty of the States. From the Montgomery Advertiser, Dec. 20, 1916; and West Virginia University Documents Relating to Reconstruction. Nos. 4 and 5. Edited by Walter L. Fleming. Morgantown, WV: 1904 [III. Local Ku Klux Constitution] [online at http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/book/D

ocuments_­Relating_to_Reconstruction.pdf].

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v10146.pdf

Finding aid to digital collection:

http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/searchterm/"Alabama%20Pamphlets%20Collection"/field/all

/mode/all/conn/and/display/100/order/sort/ad/asc

[0032] Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection [digital collection]

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: This digital collection contains over 15,000 images from the Alabama Department of Archives and History holdings. Includes a cartoon of a lynching of a carpet bagger and scalawag, "those great pests of Southern society," from the Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 1, 1868; photographs and "Warning Sent by the Klan" (1871) from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, by J. C. Lester and D. L. Wilson (1884; reprinted in 1905, with an introduction by Walter L. Fleming); and photographs of a Ku Klux Klan induction ceremony at East Lake Park in Birmingham, Alabama, 1923; a Ku Klux Klan gathering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1924; and Ku Klux Klan Rally Day at the Opelika District Fair, 1925.

Finding aids:

http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/photo

http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/collection/photo

[0032a] Alabama Republican Party Records, 1928-1984, RG 545

Location: Special Collections & Archives, Draughon Library, Auburn University, 231 Mell Street, Auburn, Alabama 36849

Description: The Alabama Republican Party was established in 1867. Records include administrative office files; attorney's papers; convention files; subject files (1960-1984); contribution and pledge files (1971-1977); publications and general campaign materials (1970-1984); Young Republican Federation of Alabama files (1965-1971); resumes and files on elected officials, both Republican and Democrat; photographs; and clippings. Series: Campaigns & Elections, contains files on Campaign Material - 1960 Nixon for President; George C. Wallace; Barry Goldwater; Richard M. Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Busing; SALT II; Vietnam; and Voting Rights Act. Series: Elected Officials, contains files on Sen. John Sparkman, Gov. George Wallace, and Pres. Richard M. Nixon. Series: National Republican Party, contains files on Busing; Desegregation - Busing; SALT Talks; Pres. Richard M. Nixon; Republican National Committee (George Bush (Chairman), Bob Dole (Chairman)); Young Republicans and J. Edgar Hoover; Young Republican Federation of Alabama; and Young Republicans for Nixon. Series: Newspapers & Clippings, contains files on Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rep. William E. Miller, Pres. Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Sen. John Sparkman, George Wallace, Alabama Conservative Party, Desegregation, and Nixon Administration. Series: Miscellaneous Files, contains files on Newspaper Clippings - Richard Nixon - 1964-66, and Republican National Convention - 1972. Series: Photographs and Biographical Data, contains files on George Bush, Robert Dole, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jack Kemp, William F. Knowland, and Strom Thurmond. Series: Campaign Materials, 1970-81, contains files on Young Republicans; Ripon Forum; Issue of American Conservative Union Battleline - March 1980; and Issues of Challenge - Natl Federation of Republican Women, 1980-81. Series: Subject Files & 1971 Southern Conference, contains files on Alabama Young Republicans, Americans for Constitutional Action, and Senator Bob Dole. Series: Miscellaneous Files, contains files on Congressman Larry McDonald, Phil Gramm, George Bush, Congressman Philip Crane, Robert Dole, Honorable Barry Goldwater, S.I. Hayakawa, Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich, Jack Kemp, Gerald R. Ford, Moral Majority, American Conservative Union, Fund for a Conservative Majority, Lyn Nofziger, Ronald Reagan, Citizens for the Republic (Ronald Reagan), Young Republicans, and George Wallace.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts.php

Finding aid:

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/545.htm

[0032b] Alabama. Tenth Judicial Circuit Court. State of Alabama vs. Robert E. Chambliss Trial Transcript, 1977, AR85 [digital collection]

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

Description: On the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded outside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama. The blast did extensive damage to the church building and killed four girls inside. Several other members of the congregation also suffered injuries. In 1977 Robert E. Chambliss was tried and convicted for his role in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. This collection contains the transcript for Robert E. Chambliss's 1977 trial, 15 photographs showing bomb damage to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and surrounding area, and trial notes and dispatches produced by Associated Press reporter Garry Mitchell.

Finding aid:

http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/aids/AR85.pdf

Finding aid to online collection:

http://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll8/id/13854

[0033] Alabama Textual Materials Collection [digital collection]

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections, P.O. Box 300100 / 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: This collection contains a selection of textual materials such as letters, diaries, minutes, fliers, clippings, and excerpts from books. Contains Prescript of the * * [order of the Ku Klux Klan], 1867; Revised and Amended Prescript of the Order of the * * * [Ku Klux Klan], 1868; a flyer for a rally sponsored by the United Americans for Conservative Government; anti-Communist flier issued by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama; Official Document (Grand Dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama), IV.10 (June 1926), including a letter from H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; a flier issued by the Cullen A. Battle Klan in Tuskegee, Alabama, listing the issues the Ku Klux Klan stands for and against; copies of The States Rights Advocate (the official publication of the Montgomery County Citizens' Council), 1956, 1961; Inaugural address of Governor George Wallace, delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1963, in which Wallace makes his famous statement against integration; a copy of The White American, "official organ of the American States' Rights Party," 1964; a letter from Charles A. Lindbergh to Governor George Wallace, 1973; George Wallace campaign materials; "The Shoppers Guide to Communist Imports" (Miami, Fla., Committee to Warn of the Arrival of Communist Merchandise on the Local Business Scene); "Communism Is Our Mutual Enemy / Help Us to Fight It," a flier describing the mission and activities of Alpha 66, a paramilitary group formed by Cuban exiles in Puerto Rico; a draft of a letter from Craig T. Sheldon of the International Anti-Communist Brigade to "former friends of Anti-Castro Freedom Fighters."

Finding aids:

http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/voices

http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/collection/voices