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

Websites with information:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3144

http://reuther.wayne.edu/guides.html

http://reuther.wayne.edu/pdf/1984_newsletter_v5.2.pdf

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/32321154

http://www.worldcat.org/title/civil-rights-congress-of-michigan-records-1933-1963/oclc/32321154

Finding aid:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000304.pdf

[0570] Civil Rights Database, Archives & Special Collections [online database]

Location: Valdosta State University, 1500 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, GA 31698

Description: The Civil Rights Database is an index of the Southern Patriot, a progressive southern newspaper that ran from 1942-1973 out of South Carolina. The newspaper supported and advocated desegregation before and after the Civil Rights Movement. Topics include American Independent Party, anti-lynching legislation, anti-communism, anti-labor, anti-union laws, apartheid, Association of Wallace Voters, Citizens Council, Citizens Against Busing, civil rights, William M. Colmer, Communism, Kent Courtney, cross burning, desegregation, Dirksen Amendment, James O. Eastland, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Equal Educational Opportunities Bill (anti-busing bill) (92-HR-13915: To further the achievement of equal educational opportunities), Florida HB 74 (right-to-work legislation), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), integration, John Birch Society, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, lynching, Joe McCarthy, McCarthyism, Lester Maddox, James Meredith, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Leander H. Perez, Herbert Philbrick, poll tax, race relations, race-baiting, racism, Right-to-work law, right wing politics, right wing press, Phyllis Schlafly, school integration, Dan Smoot, John Stennis, school busing, school integration, segregation, Taft-Hartley Act, George Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, and John Bell Williams.

Websites with information:

http://www.valdosta.edu/academics/library/depts/archives-and-special-collections/finding-aids/welcome.php

Database search engine:

http://archives.valdosta.edu/research/civilrightssearch.shtml

[0571] The Civil Rights Digital Library [digital collection]

Location: Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia Libraries, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-1641

Description: The Civil Rights Digital Library features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. In addition to the news film, the digital library includes related collections from 75 libraries, archives, and museums across the nation. Most are original documentation of the period, such as oral histories, letters, diaries, FBI files, and photographs. Among the 261 collections are Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library (0226); Clinton High School Desegregation from the Knoxville Journal Collection (0598); Eyes on the Prize Interviews (0936); Los Angeles Daily News Negatives, 1925-1954 (1755); Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (1934); Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (1934); Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Collection (2673); Southern Courier: A Weekly Newspaper Covering Civil Rights in the South, 1965-68; Southern School News, Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 1954)-Volume 11, Issue 12 (June 1965) (139 items); and Stetson Kennedy Papers (1492). Items include a WSB-TV newsfilm clip of governor Marvin Griffin addressing the General Assembly on segregation and keeping public schools open, Atlanta, Georgia, 1956; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Edward R. Fields, Macon, Georgia, 1960s; a Barnett Bumper Sticker; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission reports and correspondence; a letter from Erle Johnston, Jr., to Northern newspaper editors, 1969; and the following pamphlets: Review of Black Monday, by Thomas P. Brady, October 28, 1954; Interposition or nullification, by M. M. McGowan (n.d. [1954]); Lawyer challenges the U. S. Supreme Court, by Hugh V. Wall, June 23, 1955; We've reached era of judicial tyranny, by James O. Eastland, December 1, 1955 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1896]; Interposition, the barrier against tyranny, by John Bell Williams, January 25, 1956; Educational fund of the Citizens' Council (n.d. [1956]); Mixed schools and mixed blood, by Herbert Ravenel Sass (1956); Congressman James C. Davis speaks to the States' Rights Council, by James C. Davis, November 28, 1956; Trickery, treachery, tyranny and treason in Washington, by Joseph P. Kamp, April 1957; Segregation is constitutional but compulsory integration is unconstitutional, by W. L. Eason (n.d. [1958]); Are you aware of the planned Negro invasion? (1959); Mississippi State Junior Chamber of Commerce. Oxford: a warning for Americans, October 1962; Blueprint for Total Federal Regimentation: Analysis of the Civil Rights Act 1963, by Loyd Wright and John C. Satterfield (Washington, D.C., The Co-ordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, 1963) [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/494/rec/1]; Attitudes in Mississippi, by Erle Johnston (1967); and Jewish view on segregation ([n.d.]) [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/­compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1948].

List of collections:

http://crdl.usg.edu/collections/

http://crdl.usg.edu/collections/?Welcome

Finding aids:

http://crdl.usg.edu/

http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/usm/crmda/crdl_usm_crmda_eej010.html

[0572] Civil Rights During the Eisenhower Administration, Part 1: White House Central Files. Series A: School Desegregation (Bethesda, MD, A UPA Collection from LexisNexis, 2006) [microfilm]

Description: The documents reproduced in this publication are from the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the custody of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, National Archives and Records Administration. Contains material on the crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Governor Orval E. Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black children from entering Central High School; the Faubus decision to close Little Rock public schools in the fall of 1958, rather than allow them to integrate, as well as their reopening and permanent integration in 1959. Also contains material on the integration in 1956 of Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, including the deployment of National Guard troops, the tactics and arrest of agitator Frederick J. Kasper, and the stabilizing actions of principal D. J. Brittain, Jr. Correspondents include Bruce Alger, Byron De La Beckwith, Tom P. Brady, Virginius Dabney, Everett M. Dirksen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Milton S. Eisenhower, Orval E. Faubus, W. C. George, G. T. Gillespie, Marvin Griffin, Roy V. Harris, David Lawrence, Noah M. Mason, Theodore R. McKeldin, Westbrook Pegler, Leander H. Perez, Samuel B. Pettengill, Carleton Putnam, Maxwell M. Rabb, Fred Schwarz, W. J. Simmons, Dan Smoot, John Sparkman, John Stennis, Herman E. Talmadge, Henry J. Taylor, Strom Thurmond, Kenneth D. Wells, and J. Arthur Younger. Topics include alleged biblical support for segregation; American States' Rights Association; anti-Semitism; anti-integration actions; D. J. Brittain, Jr.; Brown v. Board of Education; Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas); church bombings; Citizens Councils of America; citizens' councils; Clinton, Tennessee; Communism; desegregation; Orval E. Faubus; House Un-American Activities Committee; integration; Frederick J. Kasper; Ku Klux Klan; Little Rock, Ark., crisis; lynching; miscegenation as "un-American"; mixed marriage ban; NAACP as Communist front; Westbrook Pegler; Carleton Putnam; racial violence; racial discrimination; school desegregation; school bombing; segregation; "Southern Manifesto" (March 12, 1956), opposing desegregation; states' rights; States' Rights Council of Georgia; John Stennis; and Horace V. Wells.

Finding aids:

http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/101150.pdf

http://www.roosevelt.nl/sites/zl-roosevelt/files/civil_rights_during_the_eisenhower_administration_­part_1__

white_house_central_files_series_a__school_deegregation.pdf

[0573] Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 1: The White House Central Files and Staff Files and the President's Office Files. A collection from the holdings of The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Frederick, Maryland, University Publications of America, Inc., 1986) [microfilm]

Description: Part 1 of Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration is drawn from three major record groups found at the John F. Kennedy Library: the White House Central Files (in particular, the Subject File), the White House Staff Files, and the President's Office Files. Names and subjects include anti-poll tax amendments, anti-Semitism, Ross R. Barnett, bombings, civil rights legislation, civil rights, Communism, desegregation, discrimination, Orval E. Faubus, Senator Philip A. Hart, J. Edgar Hoover, integration, Jim Crowism, Curtis E. LeMay, massive resistance, Benjamin Muse, poll tax, pro-segregation groups, race relations, racism, reverse Freedom Riders, school integration, segregated schools, segregation, Senator John Sparkman, Senator Strom Thurmond, University of Mississippi integration, George C. Wallace, and White Citizens' Councils.

Finding aid:

http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/1348_CivRtsKennedyPt_1.pdf

[0574] Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 2: The Papers of Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. A collection from the holdings of The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Frederick, Maryland, University Publications of America, Inc., 1986) [microfilm]

Description: Files on Governor Ross Barnett; Citizens Councils of Louisiana; civil rights; Communist Party (U.S.); desegregation; discrimination; Highlander Folk School; integration; Ku Klux Klan; Lester Maddox; James Meredith; Mississippi File—"Ole Miss" integration; Benjamin Muse; poll tax legislation; poll tax; Racial violence; United States v. Association of Citizens Councils of Louisiana; and Governor George Wallace.

Finding aid:

http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/1350_CivilRtsJFKAdminPt2.pdf

[0575] Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 3: The Civil Rights Files of Lee C. White. A collection from the holdings of The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Bethesda, MD, A UPA Collection from LexisNexis, 2007) [microfilm]

Description: The documents in this microfilm collection were filmed from the Papers of John F. Kennedy, Presidential Papers, White House Staff Files: Lee C. White, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts. Subjects include Anti-Poll Tax Amendments; Anticommunism; Christian Crusade; civil rights; Communism and communist parties; Barry Goldwater; John Birch Society; poll tax; racial discrimination; segregation; and states' rights.

Finding aid:

http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/101773.pdf

[0576] Civil Rights Greensboro [digital collection]

Location: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, 222B Jackson Library, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402

Description: Civil Rights Greensboro provides access to archival resources documenting the modern civil rights era in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the early 1980s. Historical materials include correspondence, reports, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, and oral histories held at five cultural heritage institutions in North Carolina. Clippings and other materials on the Greensboro Massacre, 1979; American Nazi Party; Harold A. Covington; Ku Klux Klan; and segregation.

Finding aids:

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/CivilRights

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/CivilRights

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2024

[0577] Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive [digital collection]

Location: The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5053

Description: The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, oral history transcripts, finding aids for manuscript collections, and other documents. Among the 2233 items are the following: a list of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Schedule of payments to the White Citizens Council forum between the years 1960 and 1965; a press release from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, May 26, 1964, identifying organizations involved in statewide opposition to civil rights workers and the Freedom Summer 1964 project, including the Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives (ATAC), based in Cleveland, Mississippi; the White Citizens councils; the Association for the Preservation of the White Race (APWR); and the Ku Klux Klan; a letter from William J. Simmons to Erle Johnston, Jr., November 18, 1987; photographs of Thomas P. Brady and William J. Simmons; and the following pamphlets: A Review of Black Monday, by Judge Tom P. Brady, October 28, 1954, which stresses the need for segregation among the races to protect the United States from decline as a civilization; A Christian view on segregation, by Rev. G. T. Gillespie, November 4, 1954, in which Gillespie states that racial separation is the way to support racial harmony. He says that Soviet Communists are behind the Civil Rights movement, because they want to break down the barriers between races so that racial amalgamation will occur. He contends that school integration will lead to intermarriage, and he cites Biblical and pseudoscientific reasons that segregation must continue. He also quotes Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington; Conflicting views on segregation (circa 1955), a pamphlet containing a series of letters from Dr. Dotson McGinnis Nelson, President of Mississippi College, who believes in the segregation of the white and Negro races, and from Tom, an alumnus of the College, who believes in the contrary views; 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, in which Cook alleges that the people who direct and subsidize the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have records of affinity for, affiliation with, and participation in Communist, Communist-front subversive organizations, activities, and causes; "We've reached era of judicial tyranny," an address by James O. Eastland, December 1, 1955, in which Eastland defends states' rights and segregation in schools, proclaims the integration efforts of such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Council of Churches of Christ, and the Rockefeller Foundation are Communist-inspired organizations, which use the national media to foster their views; Interposition: The Barrier Against Tyranny, Speech of Representative John Bell Williams, January 25, 1956, in which Williams maintains the states have the right to declare a decision of the federal government, such as the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, as illegal, invalid, and of no force and effect; Mixed schools and mixed blood, by Herbert Ravenel Sass (1956); Segregation and the South, Address by Judge Tom P. Brady, October 4, 1957, which presents the southern rationale for segregation, and describes African Americans as having an inherent deficiency in mental ability, and a natural indolence; Mid-west hears the South's story: An address by William J. Simmons, February 3, 1958, in which Simmons discusses segregation in the South, compares it to segregation in the Mid-west and in the North, argues segregation is a constitutionally protected right, and maintains the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban League are Communist-dominated organizations; South's Just Cause, by W. M. Caskey, April 22, 1961, which presents a defense of States' Rights, and argues the states have a legal right to continue the segregationist way of life; Race relations and civil rights: a southern point of view, an address by William J. Simmons, February 28, 1963, which stresses segregation is a successful system, because it is based on the realization that the races get along best when they are not forced to mingle socially; and A Jewish view on segregation, circa 1950-1960s [online at http://digilib.­usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1948]. [Harry P. Gamble, Sr.], Segregation of the White Race must Be Preserved (New Orleans, La., Society for the Preservation of State Government and Racial Integrity, June 1955) [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1785/rec/1].

Finding aid:

http://digilib.usm.edu/crmda.php

[0578] Civil Rights miscellaneous collection, 1937-1969 and undated, MSS. 500

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

Description: Broadsides, leaflets, circulars, publications, comics, and other materials documenting Anti-Communism, anti-Semitism, anti-left-wing activities, segregationism, and the American Eugenics Party in the United States.

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/afam/

[0579] Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1970s [digital collection]

Location: State Archives of North Carolina, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh, N.C. 27601

Description: This digital collection contains materials related to the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1970s, including letters, speeches, reports, booklets, photographs, news clippings, court records, and proposed legislation. Topics covered include school desegregation and busing, voting rights, and civil rights protests and demonstrations. Includes N.C. House Bills (1955-1956) which tried to preserve racial segregation in public schools even after the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education; North Carolina's Public Schools Face a Crisis (Governor's Committee for the Public School Amendment, 1956), a brochure encouraging North Carolina voters to vote for a constitutional amendment to suspend public schools in order to prevent forced integration; Address by Governor Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina on State-Wide Radio-Television Network, August 8, 1955, on the topic of public schools and segregation, expressing his views opposing racial integration; The Segregation Problem in the Public Schools of North Carolina, Summary of Statements and Actions by Governor Luther H. Hodges, March 25, 1956 (1956); and Assorted Clippings on School Segregation, 1950s -1960s.

Websites with information:

http://ncarchives.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/civil-rights-movement-digital-collection/

Finding aids:

http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/home/collections/civil-rights

http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/search/collection/p16062coll17/display/200/order/date/ad/asc

[0580] Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks. Alabama events, 1950-1969 [digital collection]

Location: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: Over the years Birmingham Public librarians collected newspaper articles about the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and arranged them in eight scrapbooks. The articles were clipped from several newspapers including The Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, and the Montgomery Advertiser. Topics covered include bus segregation ordered halted by Interstate Commerce Commission; Montgomery bus boycott; attempts at school desegregation; Supreme Court rules bus segregation is unconstitutional; and George Wallace defiance.

Websites with information:

http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010/05/alabama-civil-rights-1950-1969.html

Finding aid:

http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/BPLSB02/searchterm/Civil%20Rights%20Movement%

20scrapbooks.%20Alabama%20events/field/title/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/

[0581] Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks. Mississippi events, 1948-1968 [digital collection]

Location: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: Over the years Birmingham Public librarians collected newspaper articles about the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and arranged them in three scrapbooks. The articles were clipped from several newspapers including The Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, and the Montgomery Advertiser. Topics covered include Governor Ross Barnett bars James H. Meredith from "Ole Miss" and University of Mississippi rioting.

Websites with information:

http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010/05/mississippi-civil-rights-1948-1968.html

Finding aid:

http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/BPLSB02/searchterm/Civil%20Rights%20Moveme

nt%20scrapbooks.%20Mississippi%20events%20volume/field/title/mode/exact/conn/and/cosuppress/

[0582] Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks, National events, 1945-1969 [digital collection]

Location: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: Over the years librarians of the Birmingham Public Library collected newspaper articles about the Civil Rights Movement and arranged them in twelve scrapbooks. The articles were clipped from several newspapers including The Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, Montgomery Advertiser, and The Tuscaloosa News. Topics covered include Georgia "White Supremacy" Bill; Truman Civil Rights proposals; Southern reaction to Truman proposals; MacArthur speech to Congress; Eisenhower State of the Union Address; racial violence in Tennessee; Kentucky racial problems; bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama ends; Texas defies integration plans; Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas vow to continue segregation; civil rights bill approved; Georgia defies federal integration policy; Little Rock, Arkansas asks halt to integration; Virginia and Arkansas to defy integration; Governor John Patterson of Alabama warns Congress on civil rights; Atlanta, Georgia ordered to form integration plan; racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas; peaceful integration in North Carolina and Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana defies integration; racial violence in Greenville, South Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida racial violence; racial violence in New Orleans, Louisiana; Freedom Riders assailed by MacDonald Gallion; U.S. Marshals ordered into Alabama; Freedom Riders linked to Communist Cuba; "Reverse Freedom Riders"; Albany, Georgia racial violence; school desegregation continues throughout the South; federal judge orders University of Mississippi to admit James H. Meredith; Civil Rights Bill of 1963; civil rights murder case in Mississippi [Byron de la Beckwith]; Lester Maddox cafeteria goes out of business; and Birmingham, Alabama bombings.

Websites with information:

http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010/04/united-states-civil-rights-1947-1969.html

http://www.bplonline.org/virtual/ContentDMSubjectBrowse.aspx?subject=African%20Americans--Civil%20Ri

ghts--United%20States

Finding aid:

http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/BPLSB02/searchterm/Civil%20rights%20movement%2

0scrapbooks.%20national%20events%20volume/field/title/mode/all/conn/and/order/date/ad/f/cosuppress/

[0583] The Civil Rights Oral History Project Collection, 2002- [oral history; partly digital collection]

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