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

Reference:

The Frank Church Papers: A Summary Guide, including the papers of Bethine C. Church and Carl Burke, by Ralph W. Hansen and Deborah J. Roberts, assisted by Ellen Koger and David Kennedy (Boise: Boise State University Library, Special Collections Department, 1998).

Finding aid:

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv50912

[0552] The Church League of America Collection of the Research Files of Counterattack, the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag, 1928-1973 (bulk, 1945-1973), TAM.148

Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Description: The research files of this collection were obtained by the right-wing Church League of America from several prominent anti-Communist organizations and individuals: American Business Consultants, Inc. (publishers of Counterattack), Karl Baarslag, and the Wackenhut Corporation. All of these organizations and individuals had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States government, kept detailed research files on individuals and organizations as part of their organizational or professional activities, and were a part of a right-wing research and information network that monitored Communists and other perceived threats to their interpretation of the American way of life. The research files contain newspaper and magazine clippings, reports, flyers, internal and external correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, circulars, and government publications. Series I: Counterattack Research Files, 1928-1967, contains files on "The Tablet" Editorials [Catholic Weekly Newspaper]; Foundations, 1942-1966; Alger Hiss; American Coalition of Patriotic Societies; American Legion; American Friends of the Captive Nations; Anti-Communist Legislation; Canadian Intelligence Service; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade; Circuit Riders; Bildenberg Group conferences; Council Against Communist Aggression; Council Against Communist Aggression and Alexis de Tocqueville Society; Dr. Fred C. Schwarz [Christian Anti-Communism Crusade]; Fascism; Fluoridation; Foreign Policy Association; Fund for the Republic; Gordon Hall; Harry Elmer Barnes; Hate Groups; Highlander Folk School; Hilaire du Berrier; Alger Hiss Trial; HUAC; Immigration; Circuit Riders, Inc.; Congress of Freedom, Inc.; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI; Joseph P. Kamp; Fulton Lewis, Jr.; Liberty Book Club; Louis Budenz; Mental Health [Dr. Fred Schwarz and Christian Anti-Communism Crusade]; Owen Lattimore; Paul Crouch; Plain Talk; Reference Material on Compulsory Sickness Insurance - Issued by the National Physicians Committee for the Extension of Medical Service; Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations Educational; Sen. William F. Knowland; The John Birch Society; and World Court. Series II: Wackenhut Corporation Research Files, Bulk, 1955-1973 1931-1973, contains files on American Nazi Party; Common Sense; Group Research, Inc.; Highlander Folk School; John Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan; Life Line; Reverend Carl McIntire; The Minutemen; Moral Re-Armament; National Indignation Committee; National States Rights Party; On Target - Minutemen publication; The Reuther Memorandum [online at http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/08/reuther-memorandum-1961.html]; Major General Edwin Walker; and Washington Observer / American Mercury. Series III: Karl Baarslag Research Files, 1930-1968, contains files on "For America" [ The Dan Smoot Report]; Amerasia [The Amerasia Case]; American Committee to Free Cuba; American Nazi Party; American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Inc.; Americans for Constitutional Action; Bilderberg Group (Bilderbergers) [1957 St. Simon Island Conference]; Brainwashing [by Communists]; Bricker Amendment; Captive Nations Week; Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation [Includes the Mindszenty Report]; Citizens Foreign Relations Committee; Citizens Councils; Citizens Foreign Aid Committee; Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations; Committee for Pillion Resolution; Committee for the Monroe Doctrine; Fluoridation; Forced Repatriation; Ford Foundation and Adjuncts; Foreign Policy Association; Foundations [and Relationship to Communism]; Fund for the Republic; Genocide Treaty; Group Research, Inc. [Index of the "Non-left"]; Hate Groups; Highlander Folk School; The Independent (formerly Exposé); Institute of Pacific Relations; John Birch Society; Koinonia Foundation; Ku Klux Klan; Liberty Lobby; Lifeline Foundation, Inc.; Loyalty Oath; Mental Health; National Renaissance Party [Neo-Nazi Group]; National States Rights Party (The Thunderbolt); National Indignation Convention; National Right to Work Committee; and The Northern League.

References:

Meyer Peter Filardo, "The Counterattack research files on American Communism, Tamiment Institute Library, New York University - weekly anti-Communism newsletter published by American Business Consultants, Inc., 1947-1968," Labor History, May, 1998; Keith Call, "Edgar C. Bundy," December 12, 2011, http://recollections.liblog.wheaton.edu/2011/12/12/edgar-c-bundy/, Ernie Lazar, "Edgar C. Bundy and Church League of America...rev. March 2013," https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/bundy-1; Matthew Glazebrook, How to Be an American: Community Anticommunism and the Grassroots Right, 1948-1956 (Ph.D., University of Sussex, 2013), http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/45257/1/Glazebrook,_Matthew.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html

http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/otherArchives.html

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/476988874

http://www.worldcat.org/title/counterattack-research-files-1932-1968/oclc/476988874

Finding aids:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_148/

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_148/tam_148.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_148/dscref2581.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/counter.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/counter_content.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/counter.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body

[0553] John V. Ciceu papers, 1962-1965, Coll. 142

Location: Nevada Historical Society, 1650 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89503

Description: Records and other papers (correspondence, reports, office files, and account books) relating to Ciceu's activities as chapter leader of the John Birch Society in Reno, Nev., and his work in other organizations, including Nevada Anti-Communist Freedom Forum, Nevada Educational Foundation, and American Independent Party of Nevada. Correspondents include John Hensley DeTar, Everett M. Dirksen, Thruston B. Morton, James B. Utt, Robert Welch, and Dan Smoot.

References:

See A Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the Nevada Historical Society (1975)

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/612365840

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-v-ciceu-papers-1962-1965/oclc/612365840

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

http://quest.grainger.uiuc.edu/RussianManuscripts/Guide/Collection/350

http://www.museums.nevadaculture.org/resources/1/Nevada%20Historical%20Society_mastermslist.pdf

[0554] Cincinnati, Ohio-- American Jewish Committee Records, 1966-1991, MS-703

Location: Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

Description: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution or disaster affecting them at home or abroad. The AJC Cincinnati Chapter, founded in 1944, combats bigotry and works to promote tolerance and mutual respect. Series A. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1966-1990. Subseries 1. General Files, contains files on Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitism and Extremism Task Force, Farm Crisis and Extremism, Holocaust materials, Martin Luther, Nazism, New Right, Scientific Creationism, Skinhead Recruitment, and Skinheads/Neo-Nazis.

Websites with information:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/findingAids.php

Finding aids:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0703/

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/xOCAJA0703.xml

[0555] Circuit Riders, Inc. Records 1928-1975, Coll. Bx 167

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

Description: Circuit Riders, Incorporated was a group, formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose purpose was to spread the gospel of Christ. However, during the late 1950s and 1960s, the focus of the Circuit Riders expanded to include the investigation of socialist-communist infiltration into all churches, government, education and the civil rights movement. Myers G. Lowman, as executive secretary of the Circuit Riders, distributed a newsletter to Circuit Rider members. On behalf of the Circuit Riders, Lowman organized the review of textbooks which were being used in some of the public schools in the 1950s. The collection includes Circuit Rider Publications and Research Files with correspondence, pamphlets and audiotapes. Files on American Coalition of Patriotic, Civic and Fraternal Societies, American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, Atlantic Union, Bricker Amendment, Edgar C. Bundy, Christian Crusade, Paul Crouch, Communist Party, Robert Donner, Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Ben Gitlow, Green Mountain Rifleman, Ralph Gwinn, Billy James Hargis, Highlander Folk School, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Alfred Kohlberg, Joseph Brown Matthews, Mental Health, Lucille S. Miller, Panama Canal, Walter Steele, George E. Sullivan, Supreme Court, textbooks, United Nations, James B. Utt, and World Government. Pamphlets by or published by Marilyn R. Allen; Alliance, Inc.; America First Committee; America Plus; America's Future; American Bar Association; American Center for Education; American Defense Society, Inc.; American Heritage Protective Committee; American Institute for Economic Research; American Jewish Committee; American Jewish League against Communism; American Legion; Americanism Finance Committee/National Sojourners Incorporated; Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (Primer on Communism); Gregor Aronson; Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League; Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi; Karl Baarslag; James D. Bales; Ivor Benson; Aldrich Blake; Tom P. Brady; Britons Publishing Society; Louis Francis Budenz; Frank A. Capell; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade; Christian Beacon Press; Christian Crusade; Christian Nationalist Crusade; Church League of America; Cinema Educational Guild, Inc.; Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties; Reuben Clark; Corneliu Codreanu; Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc.; Committee of 100; Committee to Restore the Constitution; Constitutional Educational League; Earnest Sevier Cox; Lucille Cardin Crain; The Cross and the Flag; Daughters of the American Revolution; Zygmund Dobbs; Gordon V. Drake; Education Information, Inc.; Myron C. Fagan; Denis Fahey; Faith and Freedom Forum; Reverend Raymond T. Feely; Bonner Fellers; A.N. Field; Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.; Free Enterprise Student Seminar; Wesley Critz George; Georgia Commission on Education; Kenneth Goff; Guardians of American Education; Gordon D. Hall; Anne Burrows Hamilton; Harding College Freedom Forum Presentation; F. A. Harper; Hawaii Foundation for American Freedoms; Hawaii Residents' Association; Headlines; Heads up; Henry Regnery Company; The Herald of Freedom; Heritage Foundation; Frank E. Holman; Richard Kelly Hoskins; Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation; Imperial Fascist League; Independence Foundation; Industrial Defense Association; Japanese Exclusion League of California; Manning Johnson; Joseph Kamp; Keep America Free; Knott's Berry Farm; Arnold S. Leese; Don Lohbeck; Major Hamilton A. Long; Sumter L. Lowry; Clarence Manion; Mankind Quarterly; Fred R. Marvin; J. B. Matthews; V. S. McClatchy; Ben Moreell; Mothers Organized for Moral Stability; James DeForest Murch; National Association of Manufacturers; National Catholic Welfare Conference; National Economic Council; National Putnam Letters Committee; National Republic; National Sojourners; John Noble; J. Frank Norris; R. T. Osborne; Homer L. Owen; J.E. Perkins; Herbert A. Philbrick; Murray Plavner; Karl Prussion; Arch E. Roberts; Col. E. N. Sanctuary; G. Davis Schine; Fred Schwarz; Gerald L.K. Smith; Archibald E. Stevenson; Subversive Activities Control Board; George Edward Sullivan (Wolves in sheep's clothing (Washington, D.C.: Sodality Union, 1937)) [online at https://ia800406.us.archive.org/1/items/wolvesinsheepscl00sull/­wolvesinsheepscl00sull.pdf]; Jack B. Tenney; Dorothy Thompson; Oswald Garrison Villard; Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government; Ludwig von Mises; Robert H. W. Welch; White American Society; R.M. Whitney; Robert H. Williams; and Robert Wood.

Note:

See also Myers G. Lowman Papers, Hoover Institution Archives.

Websites with information:

http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/scua-politics/conservative

http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/nwdalinks.html

https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/afram2.htm

https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html

http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1490292

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/75691449

http://www.worldcat.org/title/circuit-riders-inc-publications-and-research-files-1928-1975/oclc/75691449

Finding aids:

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv69783

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv69783

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv69783

[0555a] Walker and Gertrude Cisler Library Records, 1964-1971, bulk 1969-1971, WSR000341

Location: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University Archives, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

Description: Walker L. Cisler (1897-1994), chairman of the board for Detroit Edison, financially supported the foundation of The Walker and Gertrude Cisler Library, which was created by the Walker and Gertrude Cisler Library Foundation in 1970. This collection primarily contains documents created by the library itself, as well as copies of the National Renaissance Bulletin (1971), Common Sense (Christian Educational Association) (1970-1971), and Liberty Letter (Liberty Lobby) (1970-1971).

Finding aid:

https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/WSR000341.pdf

[0556] Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba Records, 1962-1974, Coll. 73092

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

Description: Clippings, newsletters, press releases, reports, conference papers, speeches, and printed matter, relating primarily to the political, economic, and social effects of Communism in Cuba, Communist subversion in Latin America, U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba, and activities of the Cuban émigré community.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/754870030

http://www.worldcat.org/title/citizens-committee-for-a-free-cuba-records-1962-1974/oclc/754870030

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/citicuba.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8k40066w/entire_text/

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf8k40066w&doc.view=entire_text&brand=default

[0557] Citizens Committee for the Preservation of Payrolls records, 1956-1958, Coll. 1955, 1983

Location: Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900

Description: The Citizens Committee for the Preservation of Payrolls was formed by the Joint Council of Teamsters no. 28 in opposition to Initiative 198 (1956) and Initiative 202 (1958), right to work initiatives in the state of Washington. Contains correspondence, legislative material, resolutions, speeches, petitions, reports, and clippings concerning the campaign against those right-to-work initiatives.

Reference:

Historical Records of Washington State: Records and Papers held at Repositories, Project Administrator and Supervisory Editor: John F. Burns (Washington State Historical Records and Archives Project, 1981), http://www.sos.w

a.gov/_assets/archives/WASRAB.pdf

Finding aid:

http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=CitizensCommitteePreservationPayrolls1955_1983.x

ml

[0558] The Citizens' Council, Jackson, Miss., Vol. I, No. 1 (Oct. 1955)-Vol. 6, No. 11 (Sept. 1961) [digital collection]

Description: The Citizens' Council was the newspaper of the white supremacist Citizens' Council of Mississippi between October 1955 and September 1961. Edited by W.J. Simmons. Contributors include Thomas R. Waring.

Databases:

http://www.citizenscouncils.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=newspaper&Itemid=53

http://archive.org/search.php?query=Citizens%27%20Council%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource%20AND

%20subject%3A%22White%20Citizens%27%20Council%22

http://www.fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/all%20newspapers/Newspapers%20%20Out%20of

%20NY/Jackson%20Miss%20Citizen%20Council%201955-1961/index.html

[0559] Citizen's Council/Civil Rights Collection, 1954-1977, 1987-1992, M 99

Location: Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, 18 College Drive #5148, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148

Description: Research collection of historian Dr. Neil McMillen consists of materials related to the Citizens' Council, the Ku Klux Klan, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and other civil rights groups and related individuals. Series I - Citizens' Council, contains newspaper clippings, publications, and other items. Series II - Ku Klux Klan, contains a copy of Kloran, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan White Book, 1916, and other materials. Series IV - Other Groups, contains Mark Margoian Hate Flyers, 1987-1992, Byron De La Beckwith Letter, 1964, 1994-1995, and Erle Johnston Correspondence, 1986-1991 and undated.

Reference:

Jennifer Brannock, "Documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: An Overview of the Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi," The Primary Source (Society of Mississippi Archivists), Vol. 33, Issue 1 (Summer 2014), pp. 21-26 (p. 24), http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?­article=1006&context=theprimarysource.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/lists-of-collections/alphabetical.html

http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/lists-of-collections/subjects/subj-cr.html

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m416.htm

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m099.htm

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m099.htm?m099text.htm~mainFrame

http://lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/finding_aids/m099

[0560] Citizens' Council Collection, 1947-1979, MUM00072 [digital collection]

Location: Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848

Description: The first Citizens' Council (also known as the White Citizens' Council) was formed in Indianola, Mississippi, following the United States Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which struck down segregation in public schools. Thomas Pickens Brady, a circuit court judge and Citizens' Council leader, published a handbook entitled Black Monday, outlining the group's goals, including the abolition of public schools, nullification of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and establishment of a separate black state. The publication of this handbook inspired many Mississippians to join the Citizens' Council movement. Other Citizens' Council chapters were formed around the state, and soon a statewide body, the Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, was founded in Winona, Mississippi. By 1956, the group claimed eighty thousand members in Mississippi. It was particularly active in the Delta region and also had a powerful Jackson chapter. A national group, the Citizens' Councils of America, was formed by 1956. The Council published a national magazine, The Citizen, and produced a weekly telecast, "Forum," on WLBT-TV in Jackson. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, flyers, newsletters, and other ephemera.. Included are correspondence from Robert B. Patterson and W. J. Simmons; "Civil Rights and the Negro Revolution," a lecture presented by William J. Simmons at the University of Hawaii, 1964; pamphlets, including Thomas Brady, "Segregation and the South," 1957; Thomas Brady, "A Review of Black Monday," 1954 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/­manu/id/1778]; Ross Barnett: Strength Through Unity, 1960; James F. Byrnes: The Supreme Court Must Be Curbed, 1956; James O. Eastland: We've reached era of judicial tyranny, 1955 [online at http://dig

ilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1896]; Joseph P. Kamp: Trickery, Treachery, Tyranny and Treason in Washington, 1957; John Bell Williams: Interposition, the Barrier Against Tyranny, 1956; Judge M. M. McGowan: Interposition or Nullification, undated; Carleton Putnam: Second Putnam Letter Cuts Root of Integration Fallacy, 1959; Rev. G. T. Gillespie: A Christian View on Segregation, 1954 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1880]; Louis W. Hollis: Integrity, 1965; John Bell Williams, Where is the Reign of Terror?, 1956; Robert B. Patterson, The Truth Cries Out, 1966; Statement by George Wallace, undated; Carleton Putnam: High Court's 'Arrogance' is Viewed by Northerner, 1958; John Bell Williams: Where is the Reign of Terror?, 1956; Statement by George Wallace, undated; and Martin Luther King at Communist Training School, undated; broadsides and broadsheets, including W. J. Simmons, "Organization: The Key to Victory," 1962; and copies of The Citizen, the "official journal of the Citizens' Councils of America," The Citizens' Council (newspaper), and Augusta Courier (Augusta, Ga.).

Reference:

Jesse Curtis, "'Will the Jungle Take Over?' National Review and the Defense of Western Civilization in the Era of Civil Rights and African Decolonization," Journal of American Studies, published online: 9 May 2018.

Websites with information:

http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/Special-Collections-List.pdf

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_intro/alpha.html

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_intro/bynumber.html

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/politics/manuscript-20th?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/religion/manuscript?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/civil-rights?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/criminal-justice/manuscripts?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives-subject-guide/journalism-and-mass-media-manuscript-collections?page=show

Finding aid:

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00072.html

Finding aids to digital collection:

Includes High Court's "Arrogance" Is Viewed by Northerner: A Letter to the President, by Carleton Putnam (1958); Second Putnam Letter Cuts Root of Integration Fallacy, by Carleton Putnam (1959); "The Ugly Truth About the NAACP," an address by Attorney General Eugene Cook of Georgia before the 55th Annual Convention of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia, printed by the Citizens' Council, circa 1955; "Statewide Scholarship, Essay Contest for Mississippi High School Students, 1959-60," printed by the Citizens' Council, whose "Subject" is "(a) Why I believe in social separation of the races of mankind. (b) Subversion in racial unrest. (c) Why the preservation of States Rights is important to every American. (d) Why separate schools should be maintained for the white and negro races."; and a publisher's announcement for States' Rights vs. The Supreme Court, by Thomas Wilcox (Boston, Mass., Forum Publishing Company, undated).