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

Description: Harry Walter Colmery (1890-1979) was a lawyer, insurance agent, and politician of Topeka, Kan., Washington, D.C. Colmery was elected National Commander of the American Legion in 1936. During the 1940 presidential campaign, Harry was the National Chairman of the Willkie War Veterans National Committee, and in 1964 he chaired the Veterans Task Force for Goldwater-Miller. Series 3. Political. [Subseries 2]. 1940 Wilkie Presidential Campaign: Folder Index, contains files on Republican National Committee Publicity Releases and Other Statements; Willkie; and Willkie War Veterans National Committee. [Subseries 4]. 1964 Goldwater Presidential Campaign, contains files on Citizens for Goldwater Committee; Barry Goldwater; Republican National Convention – 1964; and Veterans for Goldwater Committee. [Subseries 5]. Political Matters, 1935-1936, contains files on Frank Knox for Vice-President and Alf F. Landon for President. [Subseries 6]. Republican Party, contains files on National Republican Congressional Committee Pamphlets; Veterans Advisory Committee, Republication National Committee; and Republican War Veterans. [Subseries 7]. Miscellaneous, contains a file on The Dan Smoot Report. [Subseries 8]. Books and Publications, contains copies of A Great Constructive Contribution to the First of the Sciences by the President of the United States: Letter to the President on Foreign Trade, by George N. Peek (New York: Chemical Foundation, Inc., June 1934); and A Primer: Comment on the Great Constructive Work of the President of the United States in Making Arithmetic the Basic Science of Government, by Samuel Crowther (New York: Chemical Foundation, Inc., November 1934).

Finding aids:

http://www.kshs.org/archives/45598

http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/colmery_harry_collection.pdf

[0626] Nikki Colodny papers, 1978-1995, Coll. 2188

Location: Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Description: Dr. Nikki Colodny (1948- ) was a pro-choice activist, abortion provider, and women's health advocate operating in Toronto, Ontario, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most prominently, she worked with Dr. Henry Morgentaler, providing medical care and abortion services which at the time were illegal. Their arrests and repeated harassment brought publicity to their cause, eventually precipitating the 1988 overturn of abortion law by the Supreme Court of Canada. This collection contains records from several clinics and advocacy organizations with which she was active, in addition to press coverage of her activities and research materials. Files on Campaign Life Coalition News (December 1987, March 1988), Dr. Morgentaler and Dr. Colodny arrests. 1987, Protests/ Harassment outside of abortion clinics, Homophobia, Abortion shooting media coverage, and anti-choice materials.

Websites with information:

http://www.csw.ucla.edu/publications/MakingInvisibleHistoriesVisiblePartII.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8sn0c7w/entire_text/

[0626a] Colorado for Family Values Collection, 1992-1997, MSS #1699

Location: Stephen H. Hart Research Center, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203

Description: Collection consists of editorials and other printed material, as well as videos, detailing Colorado for Family Values' advocacy of the anti-gay legislation Amendment Two.

Websites with information:

http://c70003.eos-intl.net/C70003/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=3492206

http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/Researchers/GLBTResourceGuide.pdf

[0627] [Colorado Right-to-Work battle of 1958].

Location: Denver Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, 140 Sheridan Boulevard, Suite 303, Denver, CO 80226

Description: In 1958, right to work was on the Colorado ballot but went down to defeat at the polls. The Denver Area Labor Federation archives contain material on the 1958 Colorado Right-to-Work battle.

Reference:

Labor Archives in the United States and Canada: A Directory Prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists (2011), https://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/­copy_of_labor-archives-in-the-united-states-canada-a-directory, http://www2.­archivists.org/sites/all/files/Directory%20of%20Labor%20Archives

%20(2011).pdf, http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/copy_of_labor-archives-in-the-united-states

-canada-a-directory.

Website:

http://www.denverlabor.org/

[0627a] Colorado Subject Collection CSC.BIO Biographical files, 1829-2011

Location: Stephen H. Hart Research Center, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203

Description: The Biographical files contain information on numerous individuals, either residents of Colorado or important figures in Colorado history. They are part of a larger collection of material, the Colorado Subject Collection, which is composed of Biographical files, Geographical files, and Subject files. Materials include birth certificates, marriage certificates, deeds, correspondence, certificates of military service, biographical sketches, newspaper clippings, obituaries, and genealogical information. Files on Gov. William H. Adams [Brochure titled Adams and the Ku Klux Klan, by Carrol Joe Carter (1980)]; Charles F. Brannan; Gov. Ralph L. Carr; Sen. Peter H. Dominick; Kenneth Goff; Herbert Hoover; Dr. John Galen Locke; Gifford Pinchot; and Philip S. Van Cise [Philip S. Van Cise, by Edwin P. Van Cise (n.d.)].

Finding aid:

http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/Researchers/CSC%20Biographical.pdf

[0628] Papers of Charles Wendell Colson, 1960-1990; n.d., Collection 275

Location: Archives, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College, 500 College Ave., 3rd floor, Wheaton, IL 60187-5593

Description: Colson (1931-2012) was a Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, and later a noted Evangelical Christian leader and cultural commentator. Memos; correspondence; book, article and editorial manuscripts; text of speeches; legal papers; newspaper clippings; testimony transcripts; magazine articles; audio tapes; and photographs that document many of the major phases of Colson's life, including his work as a political advisor to President Richard Nixon, his involvement in the Watergate scandal, his conversion to Christian faith that caused him to plead guilty to one of the charges against him, his imprisonment, and his life after incarceration as a leading Evangelical writer and speaker and as the founder of the country's leading prison ministries. Series: I. Professional and Ministry Files, contains correspondence with Richard Nixon, Patrick Buchanan, Alexander Haig, and Ronald Reagan. Series: II. Watergate Files, contains a file on Wallace Assassination Attempt. Series: III. Manuscript Files, contains files on his book Kingdoms in Conflict (with Ellen Santilli Vaughn), 1987, with comments by Richard John Neuhaus. Series: IV. Ellen Santilli Vaughn Files, contains files on Abortion Clinic Bombings, Pat Robertson's presidential campaign, and Paul Harvey Material.

Websites with information:

http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/g2.htm

Finding aid:

http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/275.htm

[0628a] Braxton Bragg Comer Papers, 1905-1940, Collection Number: 00168

Location: Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, 4th Floor, Wilson Library CB# 3926, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890

Description: Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1927) was governor of Alabama, 1908-1911, and U.S. senator, 1920. Personal, plantation and other business, and political papers of Comer. Series 1. Correspondence and Other Papers, 1907-1940 and undated, contains correspondence on subjects including anti-Catholicism, anti-evolution, anti-Semitic texts that he ordered from the Dearborn Publishing Company (including "The International Jew" and "Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States"), anti-union, the Catholic question, integration (to which he was adamantly opposed), the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama politics in the 1920s, opposition to African-Americans in the U.S. Army, Prohibition, race relations, the Tom Watson trial [a charge brought against Watson for sending "obscenity" by mail, based on an editorial attack on the Catholic church in which he reprinted Latin questions that a priest might ask his female parishioners in confession], and women's suffrage.

Websites with information:

http://library.unc.edu/wilson/shc/findingaids/browse-finding-aids/

Finding aid:

http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00168/

[0629] Commentary Magazine Archive, 1942-2004 (1957-1995)

Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

Description: The Commentary Magazine Archive comprises editorial correspondence, administrative files, Contentions newsletter issues, newspaper clippings of Norman Podhoretz's New York Post columns, and a small portion of the proofs, galleys, and original manuscripts submitted for publication. Correspondents include William J. Bennett, Robert H. Bork, Patrick J. Buchanan, William F. Buckley, James Burnham, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, First Things, Milton Friedman, Ernest van den Haag, Jesse Helms, Will Herberg, Heritage Foundation, Richard Hofstadter, Sidney Hook, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Seymour Martin Lipset, Charles A. Murray, George H. Nash, National Right To Life News, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Richard John Neuhaus, Robert A. Nisbet, Grover Glenn Norquist, Norman Podhoretz, Ronald Reagan, Henry F. Regnery, Rockford Institute, Thomas Sowell, Henry J. Taylor, Ralph de Toledano, Stephen J. Tonsor, Peter Viereck, and George F. Will.

Reference:

A Guide to the Collections: Jewish Studies Resources at the University of Texas at Austin (Austin: Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, n.d.), https://liberalarts.­utexas.edu/scjs/_files/pdf/researchguide.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/curatorial.cfm

Finding aids:

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/00672.pdf

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00672

[0629a] Commissione speciale d'indagine sui problemi del neo-fascismo e dell'eversione contro le istituzioni e la legalità repubblicana, 1974-1980

Location: Regione Toscana. Consiglio regionale. Archivio, via Cavour, 4, 50129 Firenze (Firenze), Italy

Description: Meetings and minutes of the Commission; press conferences; questionnaires from the municipalities and the provinces of Tuscany and other materials on socio-economic and political-cultural aspects, with particular reference to the presence of neo-fascist groups and any subversive episodes; material from similar commissions set up in other regional councils (Lazio, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Calabria, Lombardy, Campania, Marche) and the national conference "Le inchieste delle regioni sul neofascismo" (Reggio Calabria, 15 to 16 December 1974); meetings and minutes of the consultations carried out by the Commission in Tuscany; reports from organizations and individuals; agendas of municipal and provincial councils on subversive and terrorist facts occurring at the national and regional level; studies carried out by the Istituto storico della Resistenza in Toscana, and the final report, comprising a chronology of episodes of subversion occurring in the region, analytical cards for stenciled neo-fascist periodicals that were examined, an outline of active subversive organizations in Tuscany; and reports from the Istituto di sociologia della Facoltà di Magistero di Firenze, including an essay by Antonio Carbone and Armando Testi, "Neo-fascismo in Toscana: ricerca sociologica sulla Valdinievole."

Websites with information:

http://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=comparc&Chiave=350749

http://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=prodente&Chiave=53568

http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-soggetto-produttore?id=52377

[0629b] Committee for a Free Asia collection, 1951-1953, Coll. XX282

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

Description: The Committee for a Free Asia Inc. (CFA) was established in 1951 "to promote, aid and assist the cause of individual and national freedom in Asia, as opposed to Communist and other totalitarian doctrines." Radio Free Asia (RFA) was officially run by the CFA out of San Francisco between September 1951 and 1953. Programs were broadcast in "three Chinese dialects and in English" and comprised of "principally anti-Communist propaganda, except for news and music." The collection consists of clippings and press releases relating to political, social, and economic conditions in China and Taiwan. Includes clippings from Chinese, Hong Kong and Chinese-language American newspapers, and press releases issued by Radio Free Asia. Collected by the Committee for a Free Asia.

References:

Richard H. Cummings, "March 12, 1951: The Original Radio Free Asia Incorporated," March 12, 2013, http://coldwarradios.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-12-1951-original-radio-free-asia.html; Mareike Ohlberg, "The 'Other' Radio Free Asia: 1951 to 1953," May 10, 2015, http://mareikeohlberg.com/the-other-radio-free-asia-1951-to-1953/.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt129030s1/entire_text/

[0630] Committee for the Free World Records, 1980-1991, Coll. 89007

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

Description: The Committee for the Free World, founded in February 1981, was an anti-Communist think tank in the United States. Midge Decter served as Executive Director. Correspondence, conference proceedings, bulletins, press releases, financial records, booklets, phonotapes, and videotapes, relating to American foreign and domestic policy, the moral and intellectual climate in the Western world, relations between the United States and Europe and the Soviet Union, and international Communism and anti-Communist movements. The series Correspondence/Subject Files, 1980-1986, contains files on Committee for the Free World (U.K.), Irving Kristol, Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Norman Podhoretz, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., George S. Weigel, Jr., and Women and Families for Defence. Copies of Contentions (Bulletin of the Committee for the Free World), 1981-1988.

Finding aids:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7q2nb2gr/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7q2nb2gr/entire_text/

[0631] Committee of One Million sound recordings, Coll. XX619 [sound recordings]

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

Description: Speeches relating to the proposed admission of communist China to the United Nations. 3 phonorecords.

Finding aids:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt158031h1/entire_text/

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/XX619.pdf

[0632] Committee on the Present Danger records, 1967-1992, Coll. 92073

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

Description: The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a neoconservative American foreign policy interest group. The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, studies, memoranda, press releases, financial records, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to American politics and foreign policy, Soviet-American relations, and American and Soviet defenses and military policy. Files on American Conservative Defense Alliance (ACDA), Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Conservative Caucus, Conservative Network, Robert Dole, Barry Goldwater, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Jesse Helms, Iran-Contra affair, Representative Jack Kemp, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Clare Boothe Luce, Richard Nixon, Norman Podhoretz, Radio America, Radio Liberty, Ronald Reagan, General M. B. Ridgway, Richard Scaife, and John Tower.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6w1038fh/entire_text/

[0633] Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1940-1942, MS67

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, McCormick Library, Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2300

Description: The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was formed in 1940 to encourage American interest in aiding Great Britain, and ultimately in entering the war in Europe and defeating the Axis powers. Also included are publications issued by the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, an anti-New Deal organization, including S.B. Pettengill, The Case against a third term for any president, n.d. Includes a copy of Ernest Lundeen, Six men and war: speech of Hon. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota in the Senate of the United States, July 11, 1940.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/special-collections/manuscripts-and-archives

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/special-collections/our-manuscript-archives.html

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1526

https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/7/resources/553

[0634] Committee to Defend America By Aiding the Allies Records, 1940-1942, MC011

Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Public Policy Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, 65 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Description: The Records of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) document the Committee to Defend America from its inception in May 1940 to its official dissolution in October 1942. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, CDAAA acknowledged that its work had come to an end, and in January, 1942, CDAAA merged with the Council for Democracy to form Citizens for Victory: To Win the War, To Win the Peace. The Committee to Defend America was a propaganda organization that worked to persuade the American public that the United States should supply the Allies with as much material and financial aid as possible in order to keep the United States out of the war. During its year and a half tenure the Committee successfully garnered support from across the country and from other parts of the world. Consists of files relating to the political, educational, and fund-raising activities of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Included are 1) correspondence (such as that of Roger S. Greene, associate director of the Committee), daily reports, and subject files of the Committee's administrative management division at its national headquarters office in New York City; 2) executive committee correspondence and minutes; 3) state and local chapters material—correspondence, field representatives files, chapter records; 4) records of college, labor, and women's divisions; 5) fund-raising files from the Committee's NYC headquarters; and 6) published materials put out by the Committee, such as cartoons, Christmas cards, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, radio transcripts, and speeches. Publications include flyers, pamphlets, cartoons, newsletters, newspaper advertisements and clippings, postcards, press releases, a syndicated column called "It Makes Sense" (July-December 1941), radio transcripts, speeches, petitions, and policy statements. The Subject Files (1940 May-1941 December) document the many organizations with which the Committee was sympathetic, as well as the many isolationist organizations to which the Committee was opposed. Subject Files on Amerasia, America First Committee, American Legion, Anti-Semitism – Congress: Rankin (Miss.) and Edelstein, 194[1] Jun 7, Lend-Lease Bill H.R. 1776, Neutrality Act, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler.

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC011

http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC011.pdf

http://archive.is/vkhJP#selection-435.0-435.712

Finding aids to microfilm edition (Woodbridge, CT, Primary Source Microfilm, An imprint of Thomson Gale, 2005):

http://microformguides.gale.com/Download.asp?CollDocid=9053000&page=1

http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Download/9053000C.pdf

[0635] Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment Additional records, 1976-1982, 84-M145; T-163

Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: This collection contains the reports liquidating the Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts ERA, financial (including fund-raising) statements, letters and endorsements from supporters, press releases, legislative surveys, and card files of project contacts, volunteers and supporters.. Contains audiocassettes of CLUM [Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts] meeting, 5/1/1976, Springfield: Barney Frank vs. Margaret Mahoney, and WHDH: Phyllis Schlafly on David B[Brudnoy?] Show, 6/25/1976.

Websites with information:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis

Finding aids:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00523

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu//oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch00523

[0636] Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment. Records, 1975-1976, 77-M104--77-M196

Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: The Massachusetts State ERA Coalition (consisting of representatives of 40 civic, religious, business and professional groups), was formed to lobby for the passage of the state ERA through the legislature. In May, 1974 the ERA was endorsed and in the summer of 1975 the Coalition was phased out and the Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State ERA was created to campaign for ratification in the November 1976 referendum. The papers consist of campaign files: correspondence, speeches, lists of events and speakers; also clippings about the campaign. Series I. ERA campaign files. 5-77: Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment, contains a file of Anti-ERA material and files on Stop ERA and Margaret Mahoney. Series II. ERA campaign clippings, 1976, contains Anti-ERA articles.

Websites with information:

http://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_equal_rights_amendment

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis

Finding aids:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00522

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu//oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch00522

[0636a] Chester Commodore Papers, 1914-2004, Coll. 2007/01 [cartoons]

Location: Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, 9525 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60628

Description: Chester Commodore (1914-2004) was a cartoonist for the Chicago Defender. The papers include his personal correspondence, photographs, original cartoon drawings, cartoon photocopies, newsclippings of Commodore cartoons, other clippings, and varied memorabilia. Cartoons on Abortion; anti-busing amendment; Anti-busing demonstration; Aurora Klan activity; Black church burnings; Black separatism; Brown v. Board of Education; [Pat] Buchanan/Right wing attacks; George H.W. Bush; busing; Robert Cherry/Klan bomber; Church bomb kills 4 girls/Alabama; civil rights; contract with America; Bob Dole; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Orville Faubus; Gerald Ford; Newt Gingrich; Billy Graham; Greensboro jails KKK members; Jesse Helms; J. Edgar Hoover; Iran-Contra; Jim Crow; Henry Kissinger; lynching; Nazis march in Skokie; Nazis/Washington Park; Richard M. Nixon; Nixon Administration; Panama Canal Treaty; Colin Powell; Dan Quayle; racism; Ronald Reagan; Sixty-three bombing/Thomas Blanton suspect; states rights; Strom Thurmond; Waco Standoff; George Wallace; and white power.