Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives
Description: Cyril Clemens (1902-1999) was an author and editor from Webster Groves (Saint Louis County), Mo. Principally letters from George Santayana, poet, novelist, and philosopher, to Clemens, editor of the Mark Twain Quarterly and cousin of Samuel Clemens. Santayana discusses personal matters, his own writing, and the writing of others based on his life and philosophy. The collection also contains a manuscript of Santayana's article, "Tom Sawyer and Don Quixote," and galleys of other pieces with Santayana's corrections.
Websites with information:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1930-1961/oclc/19465436
[0592] Frank Goad Clement (First and Second Terms) Papers, 1953-1959, Mf #GP 47
Location: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312
Description: Frank G. Clement (1920-1969) served as Tennessee Governor from 1953-1959. The collection consists of 321 boxes of materials that consist of correspondence, subject files, extraditions and renditions, speeches, financial records, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and press releases. Contains files on Civil rights/race relations, Oct. 1955; Clinton-Tenn., Sept.-Nov. 1956; Highlander Folk School; "Report on the Problem Created as a Result of the Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in the School Desegregation Cases" Oct. 1956; and Segregation, Jan. 1955-Dec. 1957. Correspondents include Fulton Lewis, Jr., and Horace V. Wells, Jr.
Websites with information:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120222174217/http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/educationoutreach/TN%20H
istory%20Day%20Resources%20at%20TSLA.pdf
Finding aid:
http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp47.pdf
[0593] Frank Goad Clement Papers, 1920-1969 (bulk 1952-1969), Accession Number: 94-007
Location: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312
Description: Frank Goad Clement (1920-1969) was Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1958 and from 1963 to 1967. The papers contain a file on segregation, 1956.
Websites with information:
http://www.tn.gov/tsla/educationoutreach/TN%20History%20Day%20Resources%20at%20TSLA.pdf
Finding aid:
http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/94-007.pdf
[0594] Rita Crocker Clements Personal Papers 1932-2001
Location: Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-5000
Description: Rita Crocker Clements (1931-2001) was a Dallas-area Republican Party organizer, heritage preservationist, and former First Lady of the U.S. state of Texas. Alphabetical Subject Files 1932-1972, mention U. S. Representative Bruce Alger, U. S. Representative John M. Ashbrook, John Birch Society, Cinema Educational Guild, Inc., Communism, Connally Reservation, Dan Smoot Report, Freedom Forum, Barry Goldwater, Percy L. Greaves, Jr., Harding College Freedom Forum, F. A. Hayek, Herbert Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, T. Robert Ingram, Katanga Crisis, Howard E. Kershner, Fred C. Koch, Manion Forum, J. B. Matthews, Ben Moreell, U. S. Senator Karl Mundt, Operation Abolition, Otto Otepka, Ayn Rand, U. S. Representative John R. Rarick, Congressman John H. Rousselot, U. S. Representative John H. Rousselot, Willis E. Stone, W. P. Strube, Senator Strom Thurmond, U. S. Senator John G. Tower, UNESCO, U. S. Representative James B. Utt, Harold Lord Varney, and Richard M. Weaver. Alphabetical Subject Files 1960-1990, mention American Mercury, George S. Benson, Dan Smoot Reports, Jo Hindman, Human Events, T. Robert Ingram, E. Merrill Root, and University Bookman. Alphabetical Subject Files 1973-1986, mention U. S. Representative John M. Ashbrook, U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Phyllis Schlafly, Hans F. Sennholz, Senator John Tower, U. S. Representative James B. Utt, George Wallace, and Washington Report.
Finding aids:
http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/Cushing/collectn/modpol/rcc/files.htm
http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/Cushing/collectn/modpol/rcc/files2.htm
http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/Cushing/collectn/modpol/rcc/files4.htm
[0595] Cleveland/Wilson Collection, 1962-1964, MUM00076
Location: The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848
Description: Dr. Thomas Cleveland was the president of the University of Mississippi's Associated Student Body in 1963-64. At the fortieth anniversary of James Meredith's admission, Dr. Cleveland donated the correspondence he and his predecessor, Richard Wilson, received during that period. Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera related to the admission of James Meredith into the university. Contains a letter from James O. Eastland, U.S. Senator, to Gray Jackson, Campus Senate University of Mississippi May 22, 1963. Also contains copies of The Dan Smoot Report, 8 (October 8, 1962); Human Events: Your Washington Report (October 20, 1962); The Augusta Courier (Augusta, GA) (October 15, 1962); Common Sense (August 1, 1958, and June 15, 1962); The Thunderbolt: The White Man's Viewpoint (July 1962 and September 1962); New Mexico Lobo (University of New Mexico) (September 27, 1962) [with lead article "Mississippi Continues To Keep Meredith Out"], online at https://repository.unm.edu/bitstream/handle/1928/16508/Volume%2066%20No%203%209-27-1962.pdf; The Crusader (Baton Rouge, LA, c.1962); The Aryan Views + White Folk News, 4 July 1962, 10 September 1962, 1 October 1962, 2 October 1962, 5 October 1962, 1 December 1962, and 3 different issues with no dates; "September-October Bulletin by Charles B. Hudson" (Englewood, CO; October 23, 1962); "Please!" (Los Angeles, CA: Common Sense, n.d.); "It's Also Your Problem!" (Los Angeles, CA: American Birthright Committee, n.d.); "Wake Up! Christians—Gentiles—Patriots" (Los Angeles, CA: Keep America Committee, n.d.); "International Press News Brief, June 5, 1985" (Los Angeles, CA: Keep America Committee, n.d.); "$1,600 Per Person" (Brooklyn, NY: National States Rights Party, c.1962); "From now on tell your WHITE CHILDREN"; and "I'am fo integration."
Websites with information:
http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/university-of-mississippi/manuscript?page=show
http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/191475184
Finding aid:
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00076.html
[0596] James Weldon Click Addenda, 1933-1963, S0357
Location: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 222 Thomas Jefferson Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis, One University Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63121
Description: James Weldon Click (1917-1988) was chief steward of Local 1102 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. The addenda document Click's effort to rid Local 1102 of Communist influence. Series 2. House Un-American Activities Committee Hearings and Proceedings, 1944-1955, contains reports and committee hearing minutes, including Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Labor Unions, Part I (Local 601, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America CIO, Pittsburgh, PA) Hearing Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 1949; Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups, Part 1, Committee on Un-American Activities, 7/13, 14 & 18/49; Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Labor Unions, Part 2 (Security Measures Relating to Officials of the UERMWA-CIO), December 5 and 6, 1949; Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Labor Unions, Part 3, 8/29-30/50; Documentary Proof That The Communist Party, USA, Teaches and Advocates the Overthrow and Destruction of the U. S. Government by Force and Violence, 1952; and Organized Communism in the U. S., Committee on Un-American Activities, 8/19/53. Series 4. James Click's Files, 1933-1963, contains newsclippings on Gerald L. K. Smith.
Websites with information:
http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/descriptions/desc-labor.html
Finding aid:
http://shs.umsystem.edu/stlouis/manuscripts/s0357.pdf
[0597] James Weldon Click Papers, 1937-1963, S0507
Location: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 222 Thomas Jefferson Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis, One University Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63121
Description: James Weldon Click (1917-1988) was chief steward of Local 1102 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. The James Weldon Click papers primarily document Click's efforts to rid UE Local 1102 of Communist influence and to establish the new International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America-CIO, IUERNWA, of which he was elected district president.
Websites with information:
http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/descriptions/desc-labor.html
Finding aid:
http://shs.umsystem.edu/stlouis/manuscripts/s0507.pdf
[0598] Clinton High School Desegregation from the Knoxville Journal Collection, 1956, 1958 [digital photograph collection]
Location: Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Public Library, 601 S. Gay Street, 3rd Floor, Knoxville, TN 37902
Description: Black-and-white photograph from September 1956 of speechwriter and segregationist Asa Carter, a member of the White Citizens Council in Alabama, speaking against the integration of Clinton High School in Anderson County, Tennessee. Carter is surrounded by white children as he speaks. Federal courts ordered schools in Clinton, Tennessee, to integrate "with all deliberate speed" in 1956. On September 1, Carter, who wrote fiction under the name Forrest Carter, and fellow segregationist John Kasper made speeches against the school's integration by twelve African American students. After the speeches, violence in the city grew to the point that National Guard troops were brought into the city to keep order. Kasper was later charged with inciting a riot for his speech. Also, photographs of Clinton High School desegregation (1956), National Guardsman patrol the Clinton, Tennessee community (1956), National Guardsmen at Clinton High School (1956), Students opening doors at Clinton High School (1956), National Guardsmen outside Clinton High School (1956), Students walking to Clinton High School (1956), and Clinton High School after bombing (1958).
Reference:
Jane S. Row, "Breaking the Gender Barrier: June Adamson," The Library Development Review (University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tennessee) (2009-2010), pp. 2-4, http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_libdevel/103 and https://www.academia.edu/500202/On_the_White_Right_Christian_Side_of_Every_Issue_The_Life_and_Death_o
f_Byron_de_la_Beckwith.
Websites with information:
http://crdl.usg.edu/collections/knoxjournal/
http://crdl.usg.edu/cgi/crdl?query=id:tnkcl_knoxjournal_000200
Finding aid and photographs:
http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple&c=vvs-bib&sid=fa93c666437c8c79d8bcc6af6de1db4
8&Submit=search&sort=A-Z&q1=Clinton+High+School+Desegregation+from+the+Knoxville+Journal+Collection
&rgn1=collection
[0599] Clinton 12 oral history collection [oral history]
Location: Green McAdoo Cultural Center, 101 School Street; P.O. Box 1214, Clinton, Tennessee 37717
Description: This collection includes video recordings, digital audio files, and thirteen transcripts of oral histories of those involved with school desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee. Members of the Clinton 12 are interviewed along with teachers and others involved with the process.
Websites with information:
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=1513
[0600] James W. Clise Papers, 1932-1961, Coll. 114
Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299
Description: James W. Clise (1900-1961) held executive positions in Asbestos Supply Companies and several vermiculite companies and was involved in libertarian political activities. He worked in numerous organizations, including For America, the Church League of America, Foundation for Economic Education, and Youth for Goldwater. Clise corresponded with conservatives and libertarians such as T. Coleman Andrews, Henry Hazlitt, James C. Ingebretsen, Robert LeFevre, Lawrence Timbers, and William C. Mullendore. Clise also supported conservative authors such as Bryton Barron, Ludwig von Mises and Elwood Smith. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, personal and business files, speeches, articles, and published letters. Correspondence and subject files on American China Policy Association (Alfred Kohlberg); American Council of Christian Laymen (Verne P. Kaub); American Economic Foundation; American Enterprise Association; American Mercury; Americans for Constitutional Action (Ben Moreell); America's Future (John T. Flynn); T. Coleman Andrews; Anti-subversion laws; Bryton Barron: "Inside the State Department"; Frank S. Bayley, Sr.; Campaign for the 48 states (Robert B. Snowden); Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho (J. H. Gipson, Sr.); Frank Chodorov; Christian Freedom Foundation (Howard E. Kershner); Church League of America; National Laymen's Council (George Robnett); Committee against Summit Entanglements (Robert Welch); Committee for Constitutional Government (Will I. King; Edward A. Rumely); Committee for One Million (Marvin Leibman); Committee to Defend America by Aiding Anti-Communist China; Communism; Congress of Freedom, San Francisco, California; Kent Courtney; Jasper E. Crane; DeMille Foundation; Devin-Adair Company, Publishers; Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy (Walter E. Spahr); Charles Edison; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Faith and Freedom (February 1957); Foundation for Economic Education (Leonard E. Read, W. M. Curtiss, Edmund A. Opitz); Foundation for Economic Education: "The Remnant"; James W. Fifield, Jr.; Fluoridation; For America; George B. Fowler (Valley Paper Company); Free Men Speak, Incorporated (Kent and Phoebe Courtney); Freedom Forum; Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge; Freedom Fund (Carl T. Chadsey); The Freeman; Milton Friedman; Barry Goldwater; Ralph Gwinn; Harding College; Harding College: Freedom Forum; F. A. Harper: "Public dis-utilities," William Volker Fund, and Foundation for Voluntary Welfare; Henry Hazlitt: "The Seamy Side of TVA"; Henry Regnery Company; House un-American Activities Committee; Human Events; James C. Ingebretsen (Spiritual Mobilization; Foundation for Social Research); Intelligence Digest; Intercollegiate Society of Individualists; Jeffersonian Democrats; Jewish problem; John Birch Society (Robert Welch); Walter H. Judd; William F. Knowland; Alfred Kohlberg; David Lawrence; J. Bracken Lee (American Statesman); Robert LeFevre (Freedom School); Fulton Lewis, Jr.; Life Line (Wayne Poucher); McCarran Immigration Law; Carl McIntire (Twentieth Century Reformation Hour); "Mainspring" by Henry Grady Weaver [online at http://fee.org/files/doclib/mainspring-of-human-progress.pdf]; Clarence Manion; William C. Mullendore; National Economic Council (Merwin K. Hart); National Education Program (Harding College); National Republic; National Review (William F. Buckley, Jr.); "Nine Men Against America" by Rosalie Gordon; Richard M. Nixon; Edmund A. Opitz: "The powers that be; cause studies of the church in politics"; Sylvester Petro: "labor policy of the free society"; J. Howard Pew; Daniel A. Poling: "Anti-reds"; Reader's Digest; Bryson Reinhardt; SPX (Tom R. Hutton); Fred C. Schwarz; Single tax; Dan Smoot; Oswald Spengler; Willis E. Stone (American Progress Foundation); Taft-Hartley Act; Lawrence Timbers (advertising Specialty Company); Un-American activities; United Nations and UNICEF; Voluntary Unionism (Right to work); Ludwig von Mises; V. Orval Watts; "Wolf pack is now after Senator Eastland," by G. W. Robnett; and Young Americans for Freedom.
Reference:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library, compiled by Martin Schmitt (Eugene, University of Oregon, 1971), http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/schmitt.pdf.
Websites with information:
http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/scua-politics/conservative
http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/nwdalinks.html
http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/check-out-james-w-clise-papers/
https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html
http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1975699
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/18766403
http://www.worldcat.org/title/james-w-clise-papers-1932-1961/oclc/18766403
Finding aid (microfiche): Included in National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (ProQuest UMI's microfiche series).
Finding aids:
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv02407
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv02407
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/print/ark:/80444/xv02407
http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1975699
http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1975699~S8
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv02407/op=pretrieve.aspx
[0600a] Adam Clymer Papers, 1976-1980, Accession Number: 08-04
Location: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, 441 Freedom Parkway NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
Description: Adam Clymer (1937- ) is the author of the book "Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: the Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right." This collection contains research papers and background materials for his book, including notes from newspaper articles, interviews, presidential library documents, and conservative organizations' documents and financial records. The papers cover topics such as the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Ronald Reagan's 1976 and 1980 presidential candidacy, 1976-1980 elections of conservative senators, and the overall growth of conservatism. The series Adam Clymer's Subject Files contains files on American Conservative Union (ACU); Robert E. Bauman - Congressional Race, 1980; Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress; Conservative Caucus; Conservative Digest; Phil Crane - Presidential Campaign; Group Research Files - Columbia University; Larry McDonald; National Conservative Political Action Committee; Nixon Administration; Opposition to Treaties; Ronald Reagan; Herman E. Talmadge - Senate Re-election Race, 1980; Richard Viguerie; John Wayne; Paul Weyrich - and Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Inc. Six computer diskettes contain files on Reagan; Reagan and New Right; Reagan approval among conservatives; William Rusher Book; Herman Talmadge book; Thurmond's 1974 and 1975 resolutions; ACU at BYU research; Group Research Reports research notes, Butler Library Columbia; Talmadge 1980 Senate race research notes from Russell Library, UGA; TV ads, Kanter archive University of Oklahoma; Vanderbilt Archive; John Wayne; Paul Weyrich; ADA pamphlet re: Citizens for the Republic; William C. Berman, book on Right; William F. Buckley, books and articles; Correspondence, Brent Bozell; Phil Crane Presidential campaign; Lee Edwards book; Dwight Eisenhower on Panama; Milton Eisenhower report; New Right help for Orrin Hatch; Human Events; Lyn Nofziger book; Interview - Phil Crane; Interview - Bob Dole; Interview - Stan Evans; Interview - Gerald R. Ford; ints, Lyn Nofziger; ints, Richard Viguerie; and ints, Paul Weyrich.
Websites with information:
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/
Finding aid:
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/Clymer_Adam.pdf
[0601] Coalition for Central America Records, 1979-1996 (bulk 1986-1996), MG 405
Location: Special Collections & Archives, University of Idaho Library, 875 Perimeter Drive MS 2350, Moscow, ID 83844-2350
Description: The Coalition for Central America was a grassroots organization based in Moscow, Idaho from 1985 until 1996. The group was originally called the Moscow Central America Solidarity Organization. The name was changed in 1986 to reflect a wider outreach effort. The purpose of the coalition was to raise public awareness and change U.S. foreign policy in Central America. Later, the group's efforts included other countries and causes in the region around Central America, South America, and Mexico. Series II. Resource Material, contains numerous files on the Contras, Contra Aid, and Oliver North.
Websites with information:
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/searchall.html
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/
Finding aids:
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/mg405.htm
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv83796
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv83796
[0602] Cheryl Coatney collection on Proposition 8, 2008-2009, MSS 6801
Location: L. Tom Perry Special Collections; 21st Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts; 1130 Harold B. Lee Library; Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah 84602
Description: Contains newspaper clippings, email printouts, and a political banner related to Proposition 8, the bill proposing an amendment to the California constitution to define marriage between one man and one woman, collected by Cheryl Coatney, September 2008-March 2009. Proposition 8 was approved in the November 2008 election.
Websites with information:
https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php
Finding aid:
http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%206801
[0602a] Osro Cobb Collection, 1929-1980, M96-11
Location: UCA Archives, Torreyson Library, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035
Description: Osro Cobb (1904-1995) was an Arkansas lawyer, state representative, state chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas, U.S. Attorney for the District during the 1957 Little Rock School Integration Crisis, and judge on the Arkansas Supreme Court. Files on Governor Orval E. Faubus; Hoxie School District vs. White America, Inc., 1955-1956; and Little Rock School Integration.
Websites with information:
http://uca.edu/archives/manuscript-collections/
Finding aid:
http://uca.edu/archives/m96-11-osro-cobb-collection/
[0603] Charles Coburn papers, 1892-1959, MS 1126
Location: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Russell Special Collections Building, University of Georgia, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30602
Description: Charles Douville Coburn (1877-1961), born in Macon, GA, was a prominent stage and screen actor, manager, director, and producer. The collection includes scrapbooks, scripts, photographs, and interviews. Three political scrapbooks, dated 1950-53, 1953-56, and 1959, 1960-61, contain various politically oriented newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with Coburn's involvement in Republican politics, anti-Communism, anti-income tax, McCarthyism, and 'Jeffersonian' ideals.
Finding aids:
http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms1126-ead.xml
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/hmans/1f/hargrett_manuscripts_Ca.txt
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/hmans/1f/hargrett_manuscripts_Coa.pdf
[0604] Oscar Cohen Papers, 1955-1985, Manuscript Collection No. 294
Location: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220
Description: Oscar Cohen (1908-1985) was National Program Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), 1954-1975. The papers contain materials pertaining to Cohen's activities as National Program Director and his research into the area of Jewish-Christian relations. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, polls, bibliographies, proposals, newsclippings and miscellaneous items. Series B. Anti-Semitism. Sub-Series 1. General, contains files on Anti-Semitism, "Anti-Semitism in America, 1654-1930" (report, 1969), "Anti-Semitism in the U.S." (report, 1981), Anti-Zionism, Catholic anti-Semitism, Charles E. Coughlin, Harold Covington, Dreyfus Case, Employment Discrimination, Extremism, Henry Ford, Leo M. Frank Case, German-American Bund, Ulysses S. Grant (General Order No. 11 (1862)), History of American anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Immigration Restriction, Ku Klux Klan, Charles A. Lindbergh, Tom Metzger, Nazi Party, U.S.A., Philadelphia, Pa. Nazi Rally 1979, Protestant anti-Semitism, race relations in armed forces, Red Scare Era, and Swastika Epidemic. Series D. Contemporary Social Issues, contains files on Arthur R. Butz, John Birch Society, and J.B. Stoner.