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

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[0561] Citizens' Council collection, 1955-1967, MSS. 331

Location: Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Library, 395 Hardy Rd, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408

Description: Includes correspondence, annual reports, and publications of the Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, the Citizens' Council of America, and various other organizations. Pamphlets, including Segregation and the South, Address by Judge Tom P. Brady, October 4, 1957; Conflicting views on segregation, by Dr. Dotson McGinnis Nelson (circa 1955), A Christian View on Segregation, by Rev. G. T. Gillespie, November 4, 1954 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1880]; A Jewish View on Segregation [online at http://dig

ilib.usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1948]; The Citizens' Council: A History. An Address by Robert B. Patterson (1963); The Citizens' Council; The Road Ahead, a speech by Robert Patterson, January 15, 1965; John Bell Williams: Where is the Reign of Terror?, 1956; Interposition, the barrier against tyranny, by John Bell Williams, January 25, 1956; Southerners Unite!; The Truth Cries Out, by Robert B. Patterson; Famous Quotations; Educational fund of the Citizens' Council (n.d. [1956]); How to Keep Schools Open; Mixed Schools and Mixed Blood, by Herbert Ravenel Sass (1956); How to Save Our Public Schools; The Story of the NAACP; The Ugly Truth About the NAACP, an address by Attorney General Eugene Cook of Georgia, circa 1955; Racial Facts; James F. Byrnes: The Supreme Court Must Be Curbed, 1956; "We've reached era of judicial tyranny," an address by James O. Eastland, December 1, 1955 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1896]; High Court's "Arrogance" Is Viewed by Northerner: A Letter to the President, by Carleton Putnam [online at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/citizens/id/934/rec/1]; Second Putnam Letter Cuts Root of Integration Fallacy, by Carleton Putnam [online at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/ref/collection/­citizens/id/628]; The Majority Consensus; The Mid-west hears the South's story: An address by William J. Simmons, February 3, 1958 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1452]; Civil Rights, States' Rights, and the Reconstruction Background, by Alfred H. Stone (1948) [online at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/ref/collection/civ_rights/id/1320]; Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: a study of Christianity and segregation, by Stuart O. Landry (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing Company, 1957); Voter Qualifications Laws in Louisiana; The Supreme Court–The Broken Constitution and the Shattered Bill of Rights; Negroes Menaced by Red Plot; Race Mixing–A Religious Fraud; Truth About Supreme Court's Segregation Ruling (Charleston, S.C.: Grass Roots League, Inc., 1955); Red Infiltration of the National Council, Protestant Episcopal Church; Congressman James C. Davis speaks to the States' Rights Council, by James C. Davis, November 28, 1956; A Resolution Requesting Impeachment of Six Members of the United States Supreme Court; Trickery, treachery, tyranny and treason in Washington, by Joseph P. Kamp, April 1957; "The Hybrid Race Doctrine: A Critical Analysis of Some Teachings of Modern Anthropology by Bela Hubbard, Ph.D." (San Francisco, CA: Liberty & Property, Inc.); and The Pending Tragedy in the South, by George W. Cheek. Broadside: "Freedom Bus to Any City in the North or West." Copies of The Citizens' Council. Newspapers, including Dixie-American, East Tennessee Reporter (Clinton, Tenn.), Free Men Speak, Nationalist Party Bulletin, News and Views, Southern Digest, The American Nationalist, The People's Peace Party Forum, The South African Observer, and The Virginian.

Websites with information:

http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/fulllist.php

http://www.lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/civilrights/

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/politics/

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/afam/

Finding aids:

http://library.msstate.edu/FindingAid/Citizens'_Council_collection_finding_aid_MSS.331.pdf

http://library.msstate.edu/FindingAid/Citizens%27_Council_collection_finding_aid_MSS.331.pdf

[0562] Citizens' Council Forum Films Collection 1955-1966, MP 1986.01 [films]

Location: Archives and Records Services Division, William F. Winter Archives and History Building, The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201

Description: The first Citizens' Council was formed in 1954 in Indianola, Mississippi, to resist integration. By March 1955, 167 Citizens' Councils were reported in Mississippi; these were loosely affiliated into a state organization. In 1955, the state organization began producing fifteen-minute weekly films under the name Citizens' Council Forum Films. These films consisted of interviews by producer Dick Morphew with leading American and foreign conservatives and were shown on local television stations throughout the country. The discussions centered on race, Communism, the Supreme Court, religion, and integration. The programs were created to influence public opinion on integration and Communism. Some of the films in this collection were not produced by the Citizens' Council Forum Films, but activities of similar groups. Contained in the collection are 132 reels of film, approximately 90,000 feet. Names include Representative Bruce Alger, Citizens Council, Communism, Representative James Davis, Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Senator James O. Eastland, Dr. Medford Evans, Dr. Robert Gayre, Dr. W. C. George, Senator Barry Goldwater, Mr. Edward Hunter, Reverend T. Robert Ingram, August E. Johansen, Dr. Robert Kuttner, Myers G. Lowman, Representative Noah M. Mason, Carleton Putnam, John C. Satterfield, Senator John C. Stennis, Senator Herman Talmadge, Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator John Tower, John B. Trevor, Representative James Utt, Major General Edwin Walker, George Wallace, Representative Francis Walter, and Representative John Bell Williams. Also includes 'The San Francisco Story', a documentary about the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings in San Francisco, held on May 12 and 13, 1960.

Reference:

Preston Everett, "Audio-Visual Collections," The Primary Source (Society of Mississippi Archivists) Vol. 23, No. 1 (Summer 2001), pp. 1-11 (p. 5), http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&­context=theprimarysource

Websites with information:

http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/research/collections/

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/

Finding aid:

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/ccffc/

[0563] Citizens' Council Radio Forum collection, 1957-1966, MSS. 597 [sound recordings]

Location: Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries, 395 Hardy Rd, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408

Description: Radio programs produced by the Citizens' Council of Jackson, Mississippi, and featuring political leaders of the time, covering issues like states rights and integration. 418 reels. Transcripts available for the bulk of the tapes. Speakers include George Wallace and Strom Thurmond.

Reference:

Preston Everett, "Audio-Visual Collections," The Primary Source (Society of Mississippi Archivists) Vol. 23, No. 1 (Summer 2001), pp. 1-11 (p. 6), http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&­context=theprimarysource

Websites with information:

http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/fulllist.php

http://www.lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/civilrights/

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/politics/

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/journalism/

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/afam/

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/list/#c

http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/civilrights/

[0564] Citizens' Councils of America. Jackson, Mississippi. Literature, 1947-1969, MS C49

Location: Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, 365 N. McIlroy Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72701-4002

Description: Pamphlets, leaflets, and other material published, distributed, or utilized by the Councils in propagation of their political and social views on federalism, public schools, ethnology, Communism, and, especially, race relations in the United States.

Reference:

Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections, by Samuel A. Sizer (University of Arkansas Libraries, 1976).

Websites with information:

http://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/atoz.asp

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/atoz.asp

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/research/guides/sizer/default.asp

http://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/sizer/index.html#CITIZENS

http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=365012&sid=2987680

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/28896833

http://www.worldcat.org/title/citizens-councils-of-america-literature-1947-1969/oclc/28896833

[0565] Citizens Electoral Council of Australia ephemera material

Location: Petherick Reading Room (Ephemera Collection), National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Description: The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia is a minor nationalist political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement led by American political activist Lyndon LaRouche. The original CEC was established by members of the Australian League of Rights, an extreme right-wing group led by Eric Butler, in the 1980s in Queensland.

Catalogue record:

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6418090

[0566] Citizens for Community Action records, 1969-2003, File no. 00877, Accession number: 16,206

Location: Minnesota Historical Society, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102-1906

Description: Citizens for Community Action was a grassroots, St. Paul-based pro-life group established to protest the Planned Parenthood Highland Park neighborhood location, which offered abortions in addition to its other family planning services. In 2003, it merged with Pro-Life Action Ministries and the Highland Life Care Center. Materials include annual meeting and board meeting files, audiocassettes, videocassettes, photographs, news clippings, pamphlets and brochures, mailings, correspondence, and other materials. There is information about picketing activities at the Planned Parenthood clinic, prayer vigils, fund raising, the involvement of local Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish religious figures in the organization, and an annual memorial service held by the group. Sound cassettes include The Apostolate for God's Precious Infants (Minneapolis, MN: Human Life International Conference, October 1994); Corporate Funding of Planned Parenthood (Pomona, CA: Focus on the Family, 1990); Critical Look at Planned Parenthood, by Mary Senander (1981); A Day on the Hill, by Dr. George Grant (Minneapolis, MN: Greater Minneapolis Association of Evangelicals [GMAE], March 1990); and Planned Parenthood (Orlando, FL: National Right to Life Conference [NRLC], 1983).

Websites with information:

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index_C.htm

Finding aid:

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00877.xml

[0566a] Citizens for Educational Freedom: Part 1, 1956-2003, M-259

Location: Special Collections, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri–St. Louis, 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121-4400

Description: Citizens for Educational Freedom is a national, non-profit, non-sectarian corporation founded in St. Louis in 1959, with headquarters in the Washington, D.C. area since 1962, of citizens and supporting groups of every race, color, creed and political party to promote the primary rights of parents with regard to freedom of choice, justice and quality and education for all, regardless of wealth, color or creed by allocating a fair share of educational tax dollars to each child to take to the school of the parents' choice while protecting parents and schools from undue government regulation and control. Files on Bus Bill; National, Senate Responses to Bork Letter, 1987; Correspondence with Heartland Institute, 1986; President George H.W. Bush Early Review of his Administration, copy, 1989; White House Correspondence, 1991 "America 2000", G. Bush Sr.; "Families for President Bush" – Campaign Organization, 1992; "Reagan for President" Campaign Materials, 1976; Election 1980 / Reagan GOP; Paul M. Weyrich Plan for Voucher Coalition, 1986; and Women for Faith & Family.

Websites with information:

http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/collections/mercantile-library-special-collections/special_collections/slma-259.html

Finding aid:

http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/collections/mercantile-library-special-collections/assets/pdf/special-collections/finding-aid/M-259_Citizens_for_Educational_Freedom.pdf

[0566b] Citizens for Educational Freedom: Part 2, M-283

Location: Special Collections, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri–St. Louis, 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121-4400

Description: The collection contains CEF Board minutes, papers, documents, and promotional material.

Websites with information:

http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/collections/mercantile-library-special-collections/special_collections/slma-283.html

[0566c] Citizens for Educational Freedom (Wisconsin Federation) Records, 1961-1978

Location: Special Collections & University Archives, Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University, 1355 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53233

Description: An offshoot of the national organization of Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF), the Wisconsin Federation was founded in 1961 to promote passage of the state's Fair Bus Bill, a measure intended to provide public busing to students who attended non-public schools. The law passed but was later reversed. Nevertheless, the Federation—inspired by its short term success—lobbied for further educational benefits, such as tax credits, government grants, and vouchers for parents of non-public school students. The Wisconsin Federation shared the same basic goal as its national counterpart—to secure the equal distribution of public financial education benefits for students in non-public schools. It ceased operations in 1978. The records consist of general subject files, financial records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, files, and scrapbooks. Series 1. Alphabetical Subject Files, 1961-1974, contains files on Bus Bill; Governor Lucey; and Richard M. Nixon; On Parochial Aid, clippings.

Finding aid:

https://library.oakland.edu/collections/special/http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/Mss/CEF/CEF-main.shtml

[0566d] Citizens for Reagan Records, 1975-1986, Coll. 81141 [partly digital collection]

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010

Description: The collection relates to the campaign of Ronald Reagan for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1976. Materials include correspondence, position papers, press releases, memoranda, public opinion polling data, financial records, sound recordings, and video tapes. Includes a few post-1976 records of Citizens for the Republic, the successor organization to Citizens for Reagan. Files on Abortion; Conservative Political Action Conference; "The Democratic Presidential Watch," Report prepared by the Republican National Committee, 1976; Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); Barry Goldwater; Barry Goldwater - Letter announcing support for Gerald R. Ford, 1976; Gun control; Lyn Nofziger; Lyn Nofziger correspondence regarding right to work; Rarick letters, 1975; Right-To-Work; Nelson A. Rockefeller; William A. Rusher's letter regarding Third Party Commission, 1975; Young Americans for Freedom (YAF); Books by Gary Allen, 1976; Clippings on Ronald Reagan; Master catalogue (Abortion, Big government, Bureaucracy, Busing, Capitalism, Capitalism/Socialism, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Communism, Calvin Coolidge/Dwight D. Eisenhower, Covert activities, Crime - Racial discrimination, Decentralization, Détente, Drug control, Equal rights for women, Gun control, National health insurance, Panama Canal, Rhodesia and South Africa, Right to work, Strategic Arms Limitation Talk - Soviet Union, Tax limitation, Lyn Nofziger - United Republicans of California (UROC), Ronald Reagan - United Republicans of California (UROC)); Youth for Reagan; Young Americans for Freedom (YAF); Young Republican Leadership Conference; Republican National Convention, 1976; Senator James L. Buckley; President Gerald R. Ford; The China Issue, Anna Chennault, 1976; and Platform - Statement by Jesse Helms, 11 August 1976. Boxes 112-120. Compact sound cassettes (phonotapes), 1970-1980, undated, contains tapes of How to Defend America, M. Stanton Evans and Admiral Chester Ward: Two interviews, late 1967, late 1971; Phyllis Schlafly, Disarming Henry Kissinger, 1975; and Professor Friedman, undated.

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/81141.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7w1036nz/entire_text/

[0567] Citizens for Traditional Values Records, 1984-2000 (bulk 1986-1992), 0369; Bt 2

Location: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113

Description: The Citizens for Traditional Values record group documents four separate but interrelated organizations having many of the same members and sharing a strategy aimed at uniting conservative Christians on behalf of similarly-minded candidates for office. These organizations were The Freedom Council (FC) (1985-1987), the Michigan Committee for Freedom (MCFF) (1986-1992), the MCFF offshoot organization Celebrate Life (1989-1992), and the Citizens for Traditional Values (1991-present). The records contains a variety of documentary materials such as office files, correspondence, budgets, reports, fundraising information, draft materials, and news clippings to give a well-rounded view of the conservative Christian political scene in Michigan. The series Background Information, 1986-1992, includes an oral history interview made with James Muffett describing the delegate selection process leading to the 1987 Michigan Republican presidential candidate nomination for Pat Robertson. The series The Freedom Council, 1985-1988, contains files on Pat Robertson and Americans for Robertson. The series Michigan Committee For Freedom, 1986-1992. Subseries Fundraising, 1985-1991, contains files on Fundraising Assistance to Pat Robertson (donor list) and Fundraising Events by Pat Robertson, Oliver North, and John Stormer. Subseries Visual, ca. 1988, contains videos by Marlene Elwell, Pat Robertson, and Americans for Robertson on behalf of the campaign of Pat Robertson. Subseries Delegates, 1985-1987, contains files on Action 86 (Right to Life Political Action Committee) and Pat Robertson at Freedom Rally. The series Celebrate Life, 1989-1992. Subseries Phase I, 1989-1990, includes information about the creation of newspaper inserts distributed across the state promoting a pro-life viewpoint.

Websites with information:

http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/ead_cd.htm

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/81640737

http://www.worldcat.org/title/citizens-for-traditional-values-records-1984-2000/oclc/81640737

Finding aids:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-0369?rgn=main;view=text

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;id=navbarbrowselink;cginame=findaid-idx;cc=bhlead;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=umich-bhl-0369

[0568] Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library, 2001- ongoing

Location: Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219

Description: The collection consists of primary and secondary sources documenting the modern civil rights movement, with material on events, participants, and social movements aimed at dismantling public and private acts of segregation. Materials in the collection include published audio and video imprints, ephemera and memorabilia, oral histories, periodicals, photographs, and records and manuscripts. Series II. Civil Rights Ephemera Collection, contains copies of A First Step Toward School Integration, by Anna Holden (Nashville CORE, May 1958) [on John Kasper in Nashville, Tennessee, in the fall of 1957; online at http://www.crmvet.org/docs/5806_nashv_school.pdf]; Tennessee White Citizens Council. Membership Application; and White Racism: Communication and Confrontation (Tennessee Council on Human Relations, 1968). Series IV. Civil Rights Periodicals Collection, includes a copy of Kansas City Star, Vol. 120, No. 218, September 11, 1957, containing articles on John Kasper and school desegregation.

Websites with information:

https://catalog.library.nashville.org/Record/.b18287797/

http://www.library.nashville.org/localhistory/his_spcoll_coll_findingaids.asp

http://www.library.nashville.org/civilrights/collection.htm

Finding aids:

https://library.nashville.org/sites/default/files/civil_rights_collection.pdf

http://www.library.nashville.org/localhistory/findingaids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_Civil_Righ

ts_Collec.pdf

[0569] The Civil Rights Congress of Michigan Collection, 1933-1963 (bulk 1935-1955), UR000304

Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

Description: The Civil Rights Congress of Michigan was organized in 1935 as the Conference for the Protection of Civil Rights. The Conference opposed, among other things, the Black Legion and the Ku Klux Klan, fascism, and discrimination. About 1938 the name of the group was changed to the Civil Rights Federation. From 1941 the group attacked the Dies Committee, the Mundt-Nixon Bills, and the Smith Act. About 1945 the name of the organization changed to the Civil Rights Congress. They dissolved in 1955. Correspondents include Charles Beard and Granville Hicks. Part 1, Series II, Black Legion - KKK, 1936-1952, contains files on Black Legion, KKK, and KKK - United Sons of America. Series III, Fascism, 1933-1947, contains files on America First Committee, American Legion, American Mothers, Anglo-Saxon Federation, Anti-Communist Propaganda, Anti-Nazi Activity, Axis radio, Senator Bilbo, John Bugas, Father Coughlin, Father Coughlin - Social Justice, The Cross and The Flag, Leo Donnelly, Fascism, Fifth Column, Hamilton Fish, Hamilton Fish (George Hill trial), Friends of Democracy, German-American Bund, Adolf Hitler, Clare Hoffman, Industrial Legion of America, Charles Lindbergh, National Workers League, Native Fascist Organizations, Nazi Germany, Nazi spies, Nazis in United States, Nazi propaganda, Pegler, G.L.K. Smith, Harvey Springer, George Viereck, Professor Van Moltke case, Louis B. Ward, Gerald B. Winrod, Anti-Nazi Bulletin, The Fundamentalist, Germany Today, The Hour, Social Justice, and Henry Ford. Series IV, Un-American Activities, 1935-1955, contains files on Communism, Communist Party, Harry Dexter White, Dies Committee, McCarran Bill, Mundt Bills, Mundt Nixon bill, Loyalty, McCarthy, McCarthy Book burning, Red Baiting, Smith Bill - HR 5138 - 1940, Smith Act, and un-American Activities Committee. Series VII, Discrimination, 1932-1954, contains files on Anti-lynching, Anti Semitism, Discrimination - Negro, Restrictive Covenants, Anti Lynching Bill, Hobbs Concentration camp bill - 1941, McCarran Act, Anti Poll Tax Bill, and Detroit Riots - 1943. Part 2. Series XIII. Civil Rights Issues, 1933-1963, contains files on Discrimination, Anti-Semitism; Discrimination, Black Legion; Discrimination, Racial; Discrimination, Poll Tax Bill; Mundt-Nixon Bill; and Smith Act.