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

Description: The collection includes audiocassettes, videocassettes, and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by library staff and volunteers. Interviewees are civil rights veterans, educators, community members, journalist, police officers, observers, students, church leaders, and activists recalling events related to the civil rights movement in Nashville and the nation during the 1950s and 1960s. There are one hundred and twenty interviews and seventy-nine of these are transcribed. Includes a recorded interview with Bobby Cain, one of the "Clinton 12," and the first student to desegregate public schools in the South.

Websites with information:

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

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

s_Collec.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.library.nashville.org/localhistory/findingaids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_CROHP.pdf

Finding aids to Nashville Public Library Digital Collection with excerpts of oral history interviews:

http://digital.library.nashville.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/nr

http://digital.library.nashville.org/cdm/search/collection/nr

[0583a] Kit Clardy Papers, 1950-1954, c.00278

Location: University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University, Conrad Hall, 888 Wilson Road, Rm. 101, East Lansing, MI 48824-1327

Description: Kit Clardy (1892-1961), an East Lansing lawyer, was elected to represent Michigan's 6th district in Congress in 1952, serving one term. During his term, Clardy served on the House Un-American Activities Committee, concentrating his efforts on removing all Communist influences from American life. He brought a sub-committee to Michigan to investigate Communist activities in the state, particularly in the labor unions. This collection contains campaign literature, letters to constituents, newspaper clippings, and weekly "Washington Reports", which described Clardy's work to his constituents.

Websites with information:

http://archives.msu.edu/documents/LocalHistory.pdf

http://archives.msu.edu/documents/East_Lansing.pdf

http://archives.msu.edu/collections/documents/resourcelist.pdf

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=C000416

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/850933234

http://www.worldcat.org/title/kit-clardy-papers-1950-1954/oclc/850933234

Finding aid:

http://archives.msu.edu/findaid/c278.html

[0583b] Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, M 9 [partly digital collection]

Location: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Box 842003, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284-2003

Description: Adèle Goodman Clark (1882-1983) was a founding member of the Virginia suffrage movement and a prominent supporter of the arts in Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, reports, memoranda and publications reflecting the sentiments and political positions of both the pro- and anti- suffrage movement from 1913 until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Series III: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESLV), 1892-1926. Subseries E: Topical File, undated, 1892-1920, contains printed literature documenting the anti-suffrage movement, including copies of Woman Patriot, 1919-1920.

Websites with information:

https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/vivaeadbrowse

Finding aid:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00102.xml

Finding aid to digital collection:

Social Welfare History Image Portal (Ephemera from Women's Suffrage, Temperance, Civil Rights and Other Social Movements):

Copies of Diagram Showing Percentage of Increased Vote in New York with Woman Suffrage. Rural Representation Loses With Women Voting (New York: Women Voters' Anti-Suffrage Party, n.d.) [anti-suffrage handbill]; The Dark and Dangerous Side of Woman Suffrage (New York: Women Voters' Anti-Suffrage Party, n.d.) [anti-suffrage publication]; The Red Behind the Yellow, Socialists Working for Suffrage (New York: New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1915) [anti-suffrage handbill]; Beware! Men of the South (n.d.) [anti-suffrage handbill]; H. P. Petersen, Anti Suffrage Bill. By Woman, was Eden lost, and man cursed (n.d.) [anti-suffrage handbill]; and George Creel, "What Have Women Done With the Vote?" (Century Magazine (March 1914), reprinted in pamphlet form by the National American Woman Suffrage Association).

http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/

[0584] Carter Blue Clark Printed materials, 1922-1974

Location: Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, 401 West Brooks Street, Norman, OK 73019

Description: Carter Blue Clark (1946- ) is an historian. Photocopies of articles (1923-1927) from Ku Klux Klan journals such as Kourier Magazine and Imperial Night-Hawk, including many with articles about the Klan in Oklahoma; newspaper articles (1922-1924) on the Klan in Oklahoma; papers (1923-1924) relating to Oklahoma Governor John C. Walton and the Klan; Klan pamphlets and handbooks (1920s) and interview transcripts (1972-1974) with Ira M. Finley, Albert S. Giles, and Leon Hirsch regarding the Klan in Oklahoma. Includes "The Klan's Mission--Americanism," The Kourier Magazine, Vol. 1, no. 12, November 1925, pp. 8-12; "Address by Dr. H.W. Evans," The Kourier Magazine, Vol. 2, no. 1, December 1925, pp. 3-4; "Dr. Evans, Imperial Wizard, Defines Klan Principles and Outlines Klan Activities," The Imperial Night-Hawk, Vol. 1, no. 43, January 23, 1924, pp. 2-3, 6-7; "The Meaning of 100% Americanism," The Imperial Night-Hawk, Vol. 2, no. 5, April 30, 1924, pp. 2-3; and Kloran. White Book, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Reference:

Guide to manuscripts in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma, compiled by Kristina L. Southwell (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002).

Websites with information:

http://libraries.ou.edu/locations/docs/westhist/pdf/

http://guides.ou.edu/westernhistory

Finding aid:

http://libraries.ou.edu/locations/docs/westhist/pdf/ClarkCarterBlue.pdf

[0584a] Ed Clark papers, 1972-1994, Coll. 2002C2

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

Description: Ed Clark (1930- ) was the Libertarian Party candidate for governor of California in 1978 and for president of the United States in 1980. His papers, which primarily document these two campaigns, include correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, clippings, election campaign literature, polling data, minutes, financial records, video tapes, sound recordings, and photographs. The series California gubernatorial campaign of 1978 file 1972-1981, contains correspondence with Charles Koch, copies of Libertarian Party News newspapers, and subject files on Gay rights and Proposition 13. The series United States presidential campaign of 1980 file 1975-1982, contains correspondence with Milton Friedman, Roger MacBride, and Murray Rothbard. The series Libertarian Party file 1972-1988, contains a copy of the Libertarian Party platform, 1972.

Reference:

Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017).

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5779r70z/entire_text/

[0585] Fred G. Clark Papers, 1921-89

Location: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, P.O. Box 488, 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, IA 52358-0488

Description: Clark (1890-1973) was a businessman, educator, and founder and chairman, American Economic Foundation and the Young Crusaders, an anti-Prohibition organization that later became an antiracketeering group; moderator of the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) radio program Wake Up America, 1939-46; author of four books on economics. The papers consist of correspondence, publications, and photographs that document the activities of the American Economic Foundation, as well as other facets of his life including his long friendship with Herbert Hoover. Files on American Economic Foundation, Citizens Foreign Aid Committee, Arthur O. Dahlberg, John Chamberlain, Dwight Eisenhower, The Freeman, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, Edward F. Hutton, Carl H. Mote, J. Howard Pew, Robert A. Taft, Henry J. Taylor, and A.C. Wedemeyer.

Websites with information:

https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptcollections.html

http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/hmother.html

Finding aids:

https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptfindingaids/clark.html

http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/clark.htm

[0586] The Papers of Grenville Clark, 1636-1972, ML-7

Location: Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, 6065 Webster Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3519

Description: Grenville Clark (1882-1967) was a Wall Street lawyer and the author of the book World Peace Through World Law. Clark opposed Roosevelt's attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937. Series II. Plattsburg: Military Training Camps Association; Correspondence, Finances, and Publicity, 1914-1963, contains a file on John Jay Chapman. Series V. National Economy League, has files on Warren R. Austin, William E. Borah, H. Styles Bridges, Harry F. Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Arthur Capper, Robert B. Dresser, Carter Glass, Merwin K. Hart, Herbert Hoover, Raymond Moley, George Van Horn Moseley, Wright Patman, Edgar M. Queeny, Archibald B. Roosevelt, and James P. Warburg. Series VI. Civil Rights Work, has files on Charles Beard, Homer E. Capehart, Kenneth Colegrove, Everett Dirksen, Foundation Freedoms, Frank E. Gannett, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Alger Hiss, William F. Knowland, William Langer, Owen Lattimore, Joseph McCarthy, George Van Horn Moseley, Richard M. Nixon, Edward A. Rumely, Richard B. Russell, John J. Sparkman, Dorothy Thompson, and Alexander Wiley. Series 13. World Peace Through World Law, 1934-1971, contains files on Bernard Iddings Bell, Imperial Policy Group and Walter H. Judd. Series XXVII. Miscellaneous Correspondence, has files on Warren R. Austin, H. Styles Bridges, Robert B. Dresser, Ralph M. Easley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Foreign Policy Association, Ulysses S. Grant, 3rd, Joseph C. Grew, Merwin K. Hart, Herbert Hoover, Alf M. Landon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Pat McCarran, George Van Horn Moseley, Karl E. Mundt, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Leverett Saltonstall, George Santayana, The Awakener [Joseph P. Kamp], James P. Warburg, and Owen Wister.

Reference:

A microfiche inventory of the papers of Grenville Clark as preserved within the library of Dartmouth College / with a biographical introduction "Grenville Clark (1882-1967)," by J. Garry Clifford ([Hanover? N.H., Dartmouth College Library, 1974?]).

Websites with information:

http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/index_cd.html

Finding aids:

http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml7.html

https://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml7_fullguide.html

[0587] Clarkana Papers of Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr., 1873-1962, MSS 303

Location: 20th & 21st Century Western & Mormon Americana, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, 1130 HBLL, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602

Description: Clark (1871-1961) was an educator, lawyer, statesman, and Mormon Church leader. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, drafts of writings, speeches, articles, notes, photographs, and other papers relating to Clark's career in government as Solicitor for the Dept. of State, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, and Under Secretary of State, and his activities as a member of the First Presidency of the Mormon Church. The papers contain anti-Semitic pamphlets and information on The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. There is also correspondence with the America First Committee, Ezra Taft Benson, William E. Borah, Herbert Hoover, Alfred M. Landon, and J. Bracken Lee. The Pamphlet File contains materials on the Committee for Constitutional Government and the Bricker Amendment. The Topic File and Subject File contain files on Communism.

Reference:

David C. Nelson, "Private Diplomacy During the Interwar Years: A Confluence of Mormonism, Nazism, and Investor Advocacy," EUCE Research 2005-2006, p. 11, http://eucenter.tamu.edu/sites/default/files/Research­Papers/Nelson.pdf.

Websites with information:

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php

Finding aids:

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS303.xml

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS303addendum.xml

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/printView.php?ead=UPB_MSS303

[0588] Mark W. Clark Collection, 1916-1984

Location: The Citadel Archives & Museum, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29409

Description: Mark W. Clark (1896-1984) was an American general. In 1954, after retiring from the Army, he was named to the national policy committee of For America. In 1960, Gen. Clark stated that the United States should withdraw from the United Nations because "no useful purpose is served by the United States being a member." The papers consist of Gen. Clark's official and personal correspondence, diaries, documents, speeches, films, photographs, clippings, and manuscripts relating to his military career in World War II, Austria, and Korea, and his presidency of The Citadel. The bulk of the material pertains to General Clark's commands in World War II. Contains letters from General Joseph McNarney (re: operation of recreational facilities without racial segregation) and General Edward Almond.

Websites with information:

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/subject_guides/pdf/Civil_Rights_Guide_to_Studies.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www3.citadel.edu/museum/Clark_Inventory.pdf

Finding aid (microfilm copy in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, 200 S.E. 4th Street, PO Box 339, Abilene, KS 67410):

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/Finding_Aids/pdf/Clark_Mark_Papers.pdf

[0589] Frederick H. Clausen papers, 1898, 1904-1945

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

Description: Frederick H. Clausen (1875-1944) was president of the Van Brunt Manufacturing Company at Horicon and president of the Wisconsin Manufacturers Association. Papers consist largely of speeches and writings on the farm equipment industry, grain seeders manufactured by Van Brunt, conservation, and good government. There is a letter from H.A. Jung of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation to Clausen's brother Leon R. Clausen, president of the J.I. Case Co., about the enthusiastic response to one of the National Recovery Administration speeches.

Websites with information:

http://184.168.105.185/archivegrid/collection/data/145787467

http://www.worldcat.org/title/frederick-h-clausen-papers-1898-1904-1945/oclc/145787467

[0590] Leon R. Clausen Papers, 1905-1965, Mss 1021; PH 6518

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706-1417

Description: Papers of Leon R. Clausen (1877-1965), president (1924-1948) and chairman of the board (1948-1958) of the J.I. Case Company, a manufacturer of tractors and farm equipment located in Racine, Wisconsin. The papers consist of memoirs, speeches and writings, personal and business correspondence, and subject files. They primarily document Clausen's conservative, anti-Communist political views and his pre-Case business career. Correspondence or subject files on Harry Byrd, the Bricker Amendment, Communism, Dwight Eisenhower, Foundation for Economic Education, Barry Goldwater, Merwin K. Hart (National Economic Council), Frank E. Holman, James L. Wick (Human Events), Harry Jung (American Vigilant Intelligence Federation), Joseph P. Kamp (Constitutional Educational League), Verne Kaub (American Council of Christian Laymen), David Lawrence, and Joseph R. McCarthy.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/272956008

http://www.worldcat.org/title/leon-r-clausen-papers-1905-1965/oclc/272956008

Finding aid:

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=text;­rgn=main;didno=uw

-whs-mss01021

[0591] Robert Howard Claxton Collection on Central America, 1966-1992, Collection 112

Location: The Latin American Library, Tulane University, 7001 Freret Street, New Orleans LA 70118

Description: This collection consists of Guatemalan newspapers and clippings from U.S. newspapers, left or right-wing oriented, relating to events in Guatemala in the 1960's to the 1980's.

Finding aid:

http://lal.tulane.edu/collections/manuscripts/claxton_central

[0591a] Cyril Clemens Collection, 1686-1982 (bulk 1927-1970), MSS16154

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

Description: Biographer and editor (1902-1999). Letters received from prominent people relating to the International Mark Twain Society or to some aspect of Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life or literary works written by him under the name Mark Twain. Also includes production materials for several works on him by Cyril Clemens, and copies of historical documents collected by Cyril Clemens.

Websites with information:

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

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

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010263

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010263.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2010/ms010263.pdf

[0591b] Cyril Clemens Papers, 1912-1982

Location: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538

Description: A relative of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Cyril Clemens (1902-1999) was a Mark Twain scholar and founder and editor of the journal, Mark Twain Quarterly. He also collected memorabilia and other materials pertaining to Franklin Roosevelt. This collection consists of clippings, correspondence, and memorabilia relating to Franklin Roosevelt. Also included are several publications written or edited by Cyril Clemens, including copies of Mark Twain Journal and Mark Twain Quarterly.

Websites with information:

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/list.html

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/historical_materials.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=93&q

=&rootcontentid=10850

[0591c] Cyril Clemens Manuscript Collection, 1632-1995 (bulk 1890-1960), DOC MSS 32

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University, 3650 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108

Description: Cyril C. Clemens (1902-1999) was founder and president of the International Mark Twain Society. Series 2: Autographs, 1659-1993, contains files on William F. Buckley, Jr.; James Forrestal; President Herbert Hoover; J. Edgar Hoover; Alf Landon; Clare Boothe Luce; Benito Mussolini; Ezra Pound (an article from the Italian publication Tempo, with a typewritten inscription probably by Pound); Ronald Reagan; George Santayana; Strom Thurmond; George C. Wallace; John Wayne; Owen Wister; and W.B. Yeats. Series 3: Clippings, 1803-1995, contains a copy of Archibald Henderson's sketch of Twain from Harper's (May 1909). Series 4: Correspondence, 1814-1994, contains correspondence with Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mark Clark, Representative Thomas B. Curtis, Karl Dönitz, Sam Ervin, Gerald Ford, Orrin Hatch, Henry Hazlitt, Charlton Heston, J. Edgar Hoover, Malcolm Muggeridge, Augusto Pinochet, Owen Wister, and W.B. Yeats. Series 12: Manuscripts, contains copies of a handwritten manuscript by Sven Hedin; an essay on democracy by C.S. Lewis; "Mark Twain on Practically Anything," a collection put together by Ralph de Toledano; and an autographed tribute to Mark Twain by Owen Wister. Series 15: Pamphlets, 1865-1993, contains copies of Italy's Foreign Policy, by Galeazzo Ciano (1937); speeches by President Calvin Coolidge, 1925-1929; Quotes! (Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1963), with quotations purporting to establish the connection between Jews and Communism; and Tributes to Mark Twain, 1930, including tributes from G.K. Chesterton and Knut Hamsun. Series 18: Press Releases, 1945-1984, contains items from the National Education Program, 1979-1984: George S. Benson, president of the National Education Program based in Searcy, Arkansas, writes on private enterprise, inflation, budget deficits, the need for knowledge about the Constitution of the United States, family life, and anti-Communist efforts. Series 19: Publications, 1794-1994, contains copies of Fortune, Volume 10, Number 1, 1934, which focuses on Fascist Italy; The Defendant, 1953-1954, a magazine which stands "for liberty and property," with articles on the evils of centralization, the arrogance of scientists, and overregulation as a form of enslavement; The Magazine of Sigma Chi, Number 4, October-November 1944, comprising a memorial to American humorist George Ade, with tributes from H.L. Mencken and others; Gems from Hilaire Belloc; a transcript of Texas Senator John Tower's appearance on the NBC radio program "Meet the Press," autographed by Tower; Lee Meriwether's speech "America at the Fork of the Road" while president of the Missouri Jeffersonian Democrats [anti-New Deal] in 1952; The Point, 1952-1959, issued by the St. Benedict Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, concentrates on defending Catholics against Jews, Unitarians, "the new American super-religion: Interfaith," the intellectual vagaries of Harvard University, Masons, the New York Times, etc.; Pro-Life, 1977-1984: These publications, issued by the Archdiocese of St. Louis, speak against abortion. The April 1981 issue announces 2 books on "medical holocausts" in Nazi Germany and the United States by William Brennan, professor in the School of Social Service of Saint Louis University; and Christianity and Jehovah's Witnesses Contrasted, by F.W. Thomas (Pilgrim Tract Society, n.d.). Series 20: Scrapbooks. Sub-Series 4: Clemens, Cyril, 1928-1939, contains an article by Clemens describing his meeting with Benito Mussolini (St. Louis Globe-Democrat, December 5, 1930). Sub-Series 16: Mussolini, Benito, C.1933, contains a series of interviews with Mussolini done by Emil Ludwig, as well as 2 articles by Mussolini himself: "Mussolini Sees Signs of Recovery with 1933 as the Decisive Year," and "Mussolini Sees Monument Destruction by Jugo-Slavia an Insult to Italy." Series 22: Subject Files, 1867-1993, contains tributes to Roosevelt upon his death in 1945 by Francis J. Spellman and J. Edgar Hoover, among others.

Websites with information:

http://archon.slu.edu/index.php?p=collections/collections&char=C

Finding aid:

http://archon.slu.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=66&q=

[0591d] Cyril Clemens Papers, 1927-1982

Location: Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, 222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010

Description: Cyril Coniston Clemens (1902-1999) was founder and editor of the Mark Twain Quarterly, 1936-1982. The papers contain correspondence, writings, and memorabilia. Correspondence from H.J. Anslinger, George S. Benson, Harry Flood Byrd, Anna Chennault, J.P. Coleman, Thomas J. Dodd, Orval E. Faubus, Francisco Franco, Luther H. Hodges, Carlos Peña Romulo, John Sparkman, Herman E. Talmadge, and Walter Trohan.

Finding aid:

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/c/clemens_c.htm

[0591e] Cyril Clemens Papers, 1930-1961

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708